Re: [PATCH] revert: timers: fix itimer/many thread hang

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> That loop could _perhaps_ be avoided by maintaining the sums from the
> scheduler tick: by just adding the latest delta values for the current
> task to times->*time. Plus at exit time cleaning up the remaining
> delta. That would be a far smaller patch.

That is a similar scheme to the ZVC (see mm/vmstat.c). Peter: Dont you
have an implementation of a ZVC like scheme for you dirty throttling
patchset that may be useful here?

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