Hi, Tom.

The "hz_timer" file looks like it might have what you're looking for....

Good luck.

On 01/04/2010 03:46 PM, Stewart Thomas J wrote:
/proc/sys/kernel/HZ must be a SLES thing, don't see that on RHEL. Red Hat folks 
have ideas on where to find the equivalent?

[ts62...@lsdezvm01 kernel]$ pwd
/proc/sys/kernel
[ts62...@lsdezvm01 kernel]$ ls
.              domainname             msgmnb       panic_on_oops             
random         tainted
..             exec-shield            msgmni       panic_on_unrecovered_nmi  
real-root-dev  threads-max
acct           exec-shield-randomize  ngroups_max  pid_max                   
sem            userprocess_debug
cad_pid        hostname               osrelease    print-fatal-signals       
shmall         version
cap-bound      hotplug                ostype       printk                    
shmmax         wake_balance
core_pattern   hz_timer               overflowgid  printk_ratelimit          
shmmni
core_uses_pid  modprobe               overflowuid  printk_ratelimit_burst    
suid_dumpable
ctrl-alt-del   msgmax                 panic        pty                       
sysrq

-Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Post
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 3:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: x86 to z CPU comparison for calculating IFLs needed

On 1/4/2010 at  3:53 PM, Stewart Thomas J<[email protected]>  wrote:

Regarding jiffies, we found this earlier:
http://linux.die.net/man/7/time
"On x86 the situation is as follows: on kernels up to and including
2.4.x, HZ was 100, giving a jiffy value of 0.01 seconds; starting with
2.6.0, HZ was raised to 1000, giving a jiffy of 0.001 seconds; since
kernel 2.6.13, the HZ value is a kernel configuration parameter and
can be 100, 250 (the default) or 1000, yielding a jiffies value of,
respectively, 0.01, 0.004, or 0.001 seconds. "

-- anyone know if that holds the same on z hardware implementations?

Check the value in /proc/sys/kernel/HZ on a particular system to make sure.  On 
my SLES10 SP3 guest, it's 100, and on my SLED10 SP3 laptop, it's 250.


Mark Post

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