* Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think that separate timer->pending field will require more changes,
> because we can't read/write base+pending atomically.
i think that's the killer argument in favor of the bit-trick. Being able
to read/write base+pending atomically is a good excuse. Using less RAM
alone is not necessarily a good excuse.
Andrew, could we give Oleg's 2 patches a whirl in -mm?
Ingo
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