From: Andrew M. <an...@uo...> - 2001-02-12 22:45:09
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Tim Wright wrote: > > > You could try out Ingo's per-CPU timers patch. In fact, you > > _should_ include this work as part of any highly-scalable > > kernel. It's working code. > > > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/scalable-timers/ > > > > Yes, this is rather interesting. I definitely want to play with this. > Before looking at the code, is there any kind of write-up as to what Ingo > did here ? > Is there ever? :( It's very straightforward and minimal. It just cuts the global timer structures into per-CPU ones. x86-only. Have you been observing much contention on things like the timerlist_lock? I've seen del_timer raise its head in TCP testing even on low-end hardware. |