Re: [PATCH] x86: Reduce the default HZ value

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Therefore, decreasing the HZ value to say 50, we'd get a minimum
> involuntary preemption granularity of 20ms, something on the high end of
> barely usable.

But the schedule is activated when a process is being woken up. The main
use is for load balancing.

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