Re: RFC: futex_wait() can DoS the tick

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu Jun 11 2015 - 14:44:16 EST


On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 15:13 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> The kernel does not care whether the actual interrupt happens or the
> timer is expired by other means.

Final question: Notabug explanation fits.. but why would the behavior
delta be so radical and repeatable w/wo deadline timer on some boxen?

-Mike


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