From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
It allows a selectable timer interrupt frequency of 100, 250 and 1000 HZ.
Reducing the timer frequency may have important performance benefits on
large systems.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---
arch/ia64/Kconfig | 2 ++
include/asm-ia64/param.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN arch/ia64/Kconfig~ia64-selectable-timer-interrupt-frequency arch/ia64/Kconfig
--- 25/arch/ia64/Kconfig~ia64-selectable-timer-interrupt-frequency 2005-06-06 00:14:02.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/arch/ia64/Kconfig 2005-06-06 00:14:02.000000000 -0700
@@ -161,6 +161,8 @@ config IA64_PAGE_SIZE_64KB
endchoice
+source kernel/Kconfig.hz
+
config IA64_BRL_EMU
bool
depends on ITANIUM
diff -puN include/asm-ia64/param.h~ia64-selectable-timer-interrupt-frequency include/asm-ia64/param.h
--- 25/include/asm-ia64/param.h~ia64-selectable-timer-interrupt-frequency 2005-06-06 00:14:02.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/include/asm-ia64/param.h 2005-06-06 00:14:02.000000000 -0700
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
*/
# define HZ 32
# else
-# define HZ 1024
+# define HZ CONFIG_HZ
# endif
# define USER_HZ HZ
# define CLOCKS_PER_SEC HZ /* frequency at which times() counts */
_