Re: [GIT PULL timers] Timer-wheel bandaids^Wcommits for 3.15

2014-02-28 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 06:06:38AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 17:27 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Hello, Thomas and Ingo, > > > > This pull request contains latency bandaids^Woptimizations to the > > timer-wheel code that are useful in conjunction with NO_HZ_FULL Kc

Re: [GIT PULL timers] Timer-wheel bandaids^Wcommits for 3.15

2014-02-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 17:27 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Hello, Thomas and Ingo, > > This pull request contains latency bandaids^Woptimizations to the > timer-wheel code that are useful in conjunction with NO_HZ_FULL Kconfig > option. These optimizations reduce the jiffy-by-jiffy looping in

[GIT PULL timers] Timer-wheel bandaids^Wcommits for 3.15

2014-02-27 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Hello, Thomas and Ingo, This pull request contains latency bandaids^Woptimizations to the timer-wheel code that are useful in conjunction with NO_HZ_FULL Kconfig option. These optimizations reduce the jiffy-by-jiffy looping in cases where there is either zero or one timers in the timer wheel, whi