so is there really an issue? sounds like KISS principle can apply
On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.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 >