Re: [RFC PATCH] posix-timers: Support delivery of signals to the current thread

Thomas Gleixner
2023-01-11T21:29:01Z

On Wed, Jan 11 2023 at 16:49, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 at 18:18, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote:
>> We are trying to implement sampling program analysis based on this.
>> We don't need 100% uniform sampling as a CPU profiler would need,
>> but we still need the signals to be reasonably distributed across
>> the process threads.
>>
>> Thomas, does the idea look sane to you overall?
>> Are there any existing alternatives to this?
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I guess this was lost in your inbox during the holidays period.
> Please take a look. Should I mail this as a non-RFC patch?

It's not lost it's just in that huge pile of backlog. I'll get to it in
the next days.

Though it would be probably good to resend and explicitely CC

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>

Thanks,

tglx