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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:29:49 +1100
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [patch] scalable timers implementation, 2.4.16, 2.5.0
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:57:03 +0100 (CET)
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

> 
> the 'ultra scalable timers' patch, against 2.4.16 or 2.5.0 is available
> at:
> 
>   http://redhat.com/~mingo/scalable-timers-patches/smptimers-2.4.16-A0

Hi Ingo,

	Hmm... there are some ugly hoops there to make sure that they don't
conflict with bottom halves or cli().  I assume you want to take that out:
what will break if that happens, and do we need a disable_timers() interface
to move code over?

Cheers,
Rusty.
PS.  Also would be nice to #define del_timer del_timer_sync, and have a
     del_timer_async for those (very few) cases who really want this.
--
  Anyone who quotes me is an idiot -- Rusty Russell.