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Subject: Re: [patch 44/44] posix-cpu-timers: Expire timers directly
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On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> Moving the posix cpu timers from on list to another and then expiring them
> from the second list is avoiding to drop and reacquire sighand lock for
> each timer expiry, but on the other hand it's more complicated code and
> suboptimal for a small number of timers.
> 
> Remove the extra list and expire them directly from the rbtree. Tests with
> a large number of timers did not show a difference outside of the noise
> range.
> 
> This also allows to switch the crude heuristics of limiting the expiry of
> timers to 20 for each type to a time based limitation which is way more
> sensible.

This one is buggy. I know why so don't waste your time reviewing it.