Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] timer: Improve itimers scalability

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Thu Oct 15 2015 - 08:30:28 EST


On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 05:18:27PM -0400, George Spelvin wrote:
> I'm going to give 4/4 a closer look to see if the races with timer
> expiration make more sense to me than last time around.
> (E.g. do CPU time signals even work in CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL?)

Those enqueued with timer_settime() do work. But itimers,
and rlimits (RLIMIT_RTTIME, RLIMIT_CPU) aren't supported well. I
need to rework that.

>
> But although I haven't yet convinced myself the current code is right,
> the changes don't seem to make it any worse. So consider all four
>
> Reviewed-by: George Spelvin <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thank you!
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