Re: [PATCH, v10 3/3] cgroups: introduce timer slack controller

Peter Zijlstra
2011-10-17T16:37:05Z

On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 16:31 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 05:21:10PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > Well what other cases are there? Can we enumerate them and come up
> > with similar solutions?
>
> Javascript has timers. We execute rather a lot of javascript from
> sources we can't influence at all.

Which brings me to yet another gripe I've got with firefox, _WHY_ does
it run javascript for tabs I can't see? Simply freeze the interpreter.

Then again, what does JavaScript do with these timers? I don't really
see how javascript/random-native-binary are really different, something
needs doing. What something?