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

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Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:12:31 -0700
From:	Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@...gle.com>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	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 Wed, 2008-09-17 at 12:13 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I had been thinking not so much about code size, but about the unnecessary
> indirection and allocation for the UP case.  I'm happy to defer to Ingo on
> whether to worry about that.

Yeah, I was just responding to his request for a code-size check.  I'm
okay either way, although making the data structures consistent between
the two cases does simplify the code a bit.

The next patch is waiting on Ingo's verdict. :-)
-- 
Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@...gle.com>
Google, Inc.

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