Re: [PATCH 0/3] sched, timer: Improve scalability of itimers

Ingo Molnar
2015-04-15T07:24:37Z

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> wrote:
> > This patchset improves the scalability of itimers, thread_group_cputimer
> > and addresses a performance issue we found while running a database
> > workload where more than 30% of total time is spent in the kernel
> > trying to acquire the thread_group_cputimer spinlock.
>
> I'm ok with this series, but I'm going to assume that I'll get it
> through the scheduler tree. Ingo?

Yeah, will pick them up!

Thanks,

Ingo