Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:56:46 +0300 From: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> To: Neel Natu <neel@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r208585 - head/sys/mips/mips Message-ID: <4BFE17AE.2080709@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinZEhKiUIz2pQqPQvrAL3N2LX0e1zrc8oJcBoKa@mail.gmail.com> References: <201005270127.o4R1RPaT016558@svn.freebsd.org> <4BFDE4E3.4060300@FreeBSD.org> <AANLkTinZEhKiUIz2pQqPQvrAL3N2LX0e1zrc8oJcBoKa@mail.gmail.com>
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Neel Natu wrote: > However it is not immediately obvious why we prefer to run the > statistics timer at (or very close to) 128Hz. Any pointers? I haven't looked myself, but sources report that some legacy code depend on it: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2009-December/009731.html In any case it should not be equal to hz whenever possible. -- Alexander Motin
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