Re: [patch V2 00/20] timer: Refactor the timer wheel

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Jun 20 2016 - 11:17:56 EST


On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 01:26:28PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > This is the second version of the timer wheel rework series. The first series
> > can be found here:
> >
> > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160613070440.950649741@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > The series is also available in git:
> >
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git WIP.timers
>
> Ran some longer rcutorture tests, and the scripting complained about
> hangs. This turned out to be due to the 12.5% uncertainty, so I fixed

Is that stuff so sensitive? I'm surprised, because the old slack stuff got you
6.25% already.

Thanks,

tglx