Re: [RFC PATCH] timer: Improve itimers scalability

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 05:29:44PM -0700, Jason Low wrote:
> When running a database workload on a 16 socket machine, there were
> scalability issues related to itimers.

I very much hope you're also trying to convince the relevant database
people that using process wide timers on something they expect to scale
is a horrendously stupid idea?


Nothing obviously broken stood out, but *shees* :-)
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