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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: readprofile from 2.5.25 web server benchmark
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 13:25:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D2B469E.766C856E@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200207091030.OAA22445@sex.inr.ac.ru

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> > --- 2.5.25/kernel/timer.c~timer-speedup       Tue Jul  9 00:04:33 2002
> > +++ 2.5.25-akpm/kernel/timer.c        Tue Jul  9 00:06:09 2002
> > @@ -211,6 +211,9 @@ int mod_timer(struct timer_list *timer,
> >       int ret;
> >       unsigned long flags;
> >
> > +     if (timer_pending(timer) && timer->expires == expires)
> > +             return 1;
> > +
> >       spin_lock_irqsave(&timerlist_lock, flags);
> >       timer->expires = expires;
> >       ret = detach_timer(timer);
> 
> Does this not lose timer sometimes?
> 

Well I've thought about it long and hard, but I can't see a
hole.  But there probably is one.  Somewhere.

It reduces mod_timer() load by 30% in a netperf run, so it's
worth thinking about.

-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-09 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-09  6:23 readprofile from 2.5.25 web server benchmark Dave Hansen
2002-07-09  6:44 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-09  6:49   ` Dave Hansen
2002-07-09  7:06     ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-09 10:30       ` kuznet
2002-07-09 20:25         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-07-09 21:14           ` kuznet

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