Paul, On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > The following three patches provide some crude timer-wheel latency > patches. I understand that a more comprehensive solution is in progress, > but in the meantime, these patches work well in cases where a given > CPU has either zero or one timers pending, which is a common case for > NO_HZ_FULL kernels. So, on the off-chance that this is helpful to > someone, the individual patches are as follows:
so far that makes sense, though I'd rather like to redesign the whole timer wheel mess than adding more duct tape to it. I can't dig into the details right now as I'm dead tired and about to leave for a funeral. i'll have a detailed look at this at the weekend. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/