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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1606201645200.5839@nanos>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:46:23 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanvandeven@...il.com>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
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Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch V2 00/20] timer: Refactor the timer wheel
On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> >
> > 2) Cut off at 37hrs for HZ=1000. We could make this configurable as a 1000HZ
> > option so datacenter folks can use this and people who don't care and want
> > better batching for power can use the 4ms thingy.
>
>
> if there really is one user of such long timers... could we possibly
> make that one robust against early fire of the timer?
>
> eg rule is: if you set timers > 37 hours, you need to cope with early timer fire
The only user I found is networking contrack (5 days). Eric thought its not a
big problem if it fires earlier.
Thanks,
tglx
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