linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.27-rc5 resubmit] Fix itimer/many thread hang.

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Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:09:02 -0700
From:	Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@...gle.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.27-rc5 resubmit] Fix itimer/many thread hang.

On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 17:09 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> the patch wasnt built on UP i guess - see the fix below.

Yeah, I've been focusing so much on getting the SMP case right that I've
been neglecting UP a bit.

> the wider question is, shouldnt the UP case be just the same as the SMP 
> case? Especially the type assymetry struct thread_group_cputime looks 
> ugly. (and assymetries like that tend to be a constant source of 
> breakage like the one below.)

I'm not overly fond of this one, either; I did it at Roland's suggestion
(it's all _his_ fault, yeah, _that's_ the ticket! :-); his opinion IIRC
was that the UP case will perform better without the extra pointer
dereferences.  I agree that it's a potential source of pain such as the
one you point out.
-- 
Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@...gle.com>
Google, Inc.

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