On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 08:41:00AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> > + >> > + /* Cascading, sigh... */ >> >> So given that userspace has no influence on timer period; can't we >> simply fail to support timers longer than 30 minutes? >> >> In anything really arming timers _that_ long? > > Unfortunately yes. Networking being one of those. Real cascading happens once > in a blue moon, but it happens. >
Anyway, for the more common HZ=1000 case, what would the 'limit' be ?
