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Message-ID: <878r1q882w.ffs@tglx>
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:00:55 +0200
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>, Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, Peter
 Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, "Eric W.
 Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
 kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, Edward Liaw <edliaw@...gle.com>, Carlos Llamas
 <cmllamas@...gle.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/timers/posix_timers: reimplement
 check_timer_distribution()

On Sat, Apr 06 2024 at 17:10, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Yes, this changes the "semantics" of check_timer_distribution(), perhaps it
> should be renamed.

Definitely.

> But I do not see a better approach, and in fact I think that
>
> 	Test that all running threads _eventually_ receive CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID
>
> is the wrong goal.
>
> Do you agree?

No argument from my side. All we can test is that the leader is not
woken up.

Thanks,

        tglx

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