Re: [PATCH 1/2] itimers: fix racy writes to cpu_itimer fields

[Stanislaw Gruszka]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:19:43PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > [ there is no reason to rely on the tick though, we can program the 
> > hrtimer on sched in to expire on at the right moment, and do so on 
> > each schedule for as long as an itimer is active - re-setting whatever 
> > pending timer the cpu still had. ]
> 
> we should think about the simplest approach: switching itimers to 
> hrtimers.

I agree we need better implementation of posix-cpu-timers, however as
far we have this not perfect code and two patches fix bugs on it.
Not critical bugs, but I think they should be applied. Have I resend
them ?

Stanislaw
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