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Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] timers: Footprint diet and NOHZ overhead
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On Wed, 27 May 2015, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> I finally got back two hosts with 72 cpus where I can try your patches.

Waiting for your results :)

> I have one comment about socket TCP timers : They are re-armed very
> often, but they are never canceled (unless the socket is dismantled)
> 
> I am too lazy to search for the commit adding this stuff (before git),
> but I guess it helped a lot RPC sessions : No need to cancel a timer if
> we're likely to rearm it in the following 10 usec ;)

Right, but that's a 'cancel + rearm' in the timer core code, unless
the expiry time does not change.

Thanks,

	tglx