Re: Preparing 2.6.16-7, Call for discussion on SECCOMP and HZ_250

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Frederik Schueler wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to schedule the upload of 2.6.16-7, containing 2.6.16.3 and
> 2.6.16.4, for tomorrow Apr. 13th.
>
> Additionally, I would like to call for comments on the following options:
>
> - SECCOMP: already deactivated in trunk, should be deactivated in sid
>  too, for more info on the issue please see
>  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113679955125413&w=2
>  It seems to not change the ABI, so it could still be changed for -7.

I don't have any objections to that.

> - HZ_250 instead of HZ_1000: If I remember correctly, we kept HZ_1000
>  because it was the prior default. IMHO, we should follow upstream and
>  change the default to HZ_250 too.
>
>  A short pro/cons is here: http://kerneltrap.org/node/5411

> From the discussion it seems like it's not really that important and 
HZ_250 should work ok for most cases. I think in this situation it makes 
sense to just follow upstream.

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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