Re: [patch] new, scalable timer implementation, smptimers-2.4.0-B1

2001-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: > b) The current API looks like it was designed primarly with one-shot > timers in mind. Most timers events are multishot (because > sleep_on_timeout is better for most one-shot applications [...] sleep_on_timeout() uses a one-shot timer internally

Re: [patch] new, scalable timer implementation, smptimers-2.4.0-B1

2001-01-31 Thread Daniel Phillips
Ingo Molnar wrote: > > a new, 'ultra SMP scalable' implementation of Linux kernel timers is now > available for download: > > http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/scalable-timers/smptimers-2.4.0-B1 > > the patch is against 2.4.1-pre10 or ac12. The timer design in this > implementation is a work of

[patch] new, scalable timer implementation, smptimers-2.4.0-B1

2001-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
a new, 'ultra SMP scalable' implementation of Linux kernel timers is now available for download: http://www.redhat.com/~mingo/scalable-timers/smptimers-2.4.0-B1 the patch is against 2.4.1-pre10 or ac12. The timer design in this implementation is a work of David Miller, Alexey Kuznetsov and