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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Performance of del_single_shot_timer_sync
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shobhit dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com> wrote:
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> I tried Geoff's patch and it does seem to improve performance.

By how much?  (CPU load, overall runtime, etc)

It's a bit odd to have an expired-timer-intensive workload.  Presumably
postgres has some short-lived nanosleep or select-based polling loop in
there which isn't doing much.