linux-kernel - Re: [patch 44/44] posix-cpu-timers: Expire timers directly

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Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 21:09:33 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
        Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 44/44] posix-cpu-timers: Expire timers directly


* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:

> Moving the posix cpu timers from on list to another and then expiring them
> from the second list is avoiding to drop and reacquire sighand lock for
> each timer expiry, but on the other hand it's more complicated code and
> suboptimal for a small number of timers.

s/on list
 /one list

s/cpu timers
 /CPU timers

Thanks,

	Ingo