Re: [PATCH 0/3] sched, timer: Improve scalability of itimers

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Apr 14 2015 - 19:53:57 EST


On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Jason Low <jason.low2@xxxxxx> wrote:
> This patchset improves the scalability of itimers, thread_group_cputimer
> and addresses a performance issue we found while running a database
> workload where more than 30% of total time is spent in the kernel
> trying to acquire the thread_group_cputimer spinlock.

I'm ok with this series, but I'm going to assume that I'll get it
through the scheduler tree. Ingo?

Linus
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