Re: [patch] del_timer_sync scalability patch

[Andrew Morton]

"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We did exactly the same thing about 10 months back.  Nice to
> see that independent people came up with exactly the same
> solution that we proposed 10 months back.

Well the same question applies.  Christoph, which code is calling
del_timer_sync() so often that you noticed?

>  In fact, this patch
> is line-by-line identical to the one we post.

I assume that's not a coincidence.

> Hope Andrew is going to take the patch this time.

Hope Kenneth is going to test the alternate del_timer_sync patches in next
-mm ;)

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