From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, george@mvista.com,
johnstul@us.ibm.com, paulmck@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ktimers subsystem
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 07:03:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050924050305.GA29052@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0509232258270.3728@scrub.home>
* Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> > Each network connection, each disk I/O operation arms a timeout timer to
> > cover error conditions. Increasing the load on those increases the
> > number of armed timers. At the same time this increased load keeps the
> > timers longer active as it takes more time to detect that the "good"
> > condition arrived on time.
>
> You're still rather vague here...
as i said before, millions of timers are easily possible, and i
personally saw in excess of 16 million active timers. I hope there was
nothing vague about that ;-)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-24 5:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-19 16:48 [ANNOUNCE] ktimers subsystem tglx
2005-09-19 16:48 ` [PATCH] " tglx
2005-09-19 21:47 ` [ANNOUNCE] " Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-19 22:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-19 22:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-19 22:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-19 22:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-19 22:50 ` john stultz
2005-09-19 22:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-19 23:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-09-19 23:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-20 7:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-09-20 7:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-09-21 19:24 ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-19 22:39 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-19 22:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-20 4:57 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-20 5:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-20 0:43 ` George Anzinger
2005-09-21 19:50 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-21 22:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-22 12:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-09-22 23:09 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-22 23:31 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-09-23 0:25 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-23 6:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-24 3:15 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-24 5:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-09-24 10:35 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-24 13:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-24 16:51 ` Daniel Walker
2005-09-24 23:45 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-25 21:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-27 16:54 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-27 19:03 ` Tim Bird
2005-09-28 16:36 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-25 21:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-27 16:48 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-27 18:38 ` Tim Bird
2005-09-27 20:36 ` George Anzinger
2005-09-23 2:25 ` john stultz
2005-09-23 8:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2005-09-24 2:43 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-24 5:03 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-09-24 9:04 ` James Bruce
2005-09-23 15:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2005-09-24 3:38 ` Roman Zippel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-25 15:48 Sid Boyce
2005-09-25 18:20 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-09-26 0:02 ` Sid Boyce
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