[Devel] Re: [PATCH v4] posix timers: allocate timer id per process

Stanislav Kinsbursky skinsbursky at parallels.com
Fri Oct 19 02:38:46 PDT 2012


19.10.2012 11:56, Eric Dumazet пишет:
> I wonder if some applications relied on our idr, assuming they would get
> low values for their timer id.
> (We could imagine some applications use a table indexed by the timer id)

Hmm.
Probably, this particular case can be optimised by tuning min_id to id of 
releasing timer (if id of this timer is less than current->signal min_id).
Does this approach solves the issue you mentioned above?

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Stanislav Kinsbursky




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