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From: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "peterz@infradead.org" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"devel@openvz.org" <devel@openvz.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] posix timers: allocate timer id per process
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:38:46 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50811FA6.8000709@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350633401.2293.245.camel@edumazet-glaptop>

19.10.2012 11:56, Eric Dumazet пишет:
> I wonder if some applications relied on our idr, assuming they would get
> low values for their timer id.
> (We could imagine some applications use a table indexed by the timer id)

Hmm.
Probably, this particular case can be optimised by tuning min_id to id of 
releasing timer (if id of this timer is less than current->signal min_id).
Does this approach solves the issue you mentioned above?

-- 
Best regards,
Stanislav Kinsbursky

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-19  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-19  7:50 [PATCH v4] posix timers: allocate timer id per process Stanislav Kinsbursky
2012-10-19  7:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-19  9:38   ` Stanislav Kinsbursky [this message]
2012-10-19 10:43     ` Eric Dumazet

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