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

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Message-ID: <20080914150651.GK12522@elte.hu>
Date:	Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:06:51 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@...gle.com>
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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.27-rc5 resubmit] Fix itimer/many thread hang.


* Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@...gle.com> wrote:

> This is a resubmission of the posix timer rework patch, posted a few 
> days ago. This addresses Oleg Nesterov's comments, removing the RCU 
> stuff from the patch and un-inlining the thread_group_cputime() 
> function for SMP.  I left the function itself as an inline defined in 
> sched.h but the SMP version just calls thread_group_cputime_smp() 
> which is defined in posix-cpu-timers.c.  (The UP version was a 
> one-liner; I left it as an inline.)

i've applied it to tip/timers/posixtimers for more testing, thanks 
Frank.

	Ingo
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