From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: John Alvord <jalvo@mbay.net>
Cc: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>,
Mark Salisbury <gonar@mediaone.net>, mark salisbury <mbs@mc.com>,
high-res-timers-discourse@lists.sourceforge.net,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>, Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>,
schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: No 100 HZ timer !
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:41:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010412104133.C25536@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14n2hi-0004ma-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20010410202416.A21512@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> <3AD35EFB.40ED7810@mvista.com> <3AD366DC.478E4AF@mc.com> <3AD38464.A1F97AC8@mvista.com> <002a01c0c221$32703e60$6501a8c0@gonar.com> <20010411181101.B23974@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> <3AD48D81.6E7B23B1@mvista.com> <20010411205704.B24318@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> <3ad5ade8.18532709@mail.mbay.net>
In-Reply-To: <3ad5ade8.18532709@mail.mbay.net>; from jalvo@mbay.net on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:21:38PM +0000
John Alvord wrote:
> I bumped into a funny non-optimization a few years ago. A system with
> a timer queue like the above had been "optimized" by keeping old timer
> elements... ready for new tasks to link onto and activate. The
> granularity was 1 millsecond. Over time, all timer values from 0 to
> roughly 10 minutes had been used. That resulted in 60,000 permanent
> storage fragments laying about... a significant fragmentation problem.
> The end was a forced recycle every month or so.
This is the sort of thing that Linux does with slab, dentry, inode
caches and so on. In theory the memory is reclaimed as required :-)
It's not a big issue with timers, as the timer elements are fixed size
structures that tend to be embedded in other structures. So the
lifetime of the timer element is the same as the lifetime of the object
associated with the timer.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-12 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 118+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-09 15:54 schwidefsky
2001-04-09 18:30 ` Jeff Dike
2001-04-09 18:19 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-09 20:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-09 20:32 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-09 22:31 ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-04-09 22:35 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-10 11:43 ` David Schleef
2001-04-10 12:04 ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-04-10 12:31 ` David Schleef
2001-04-10 12:34 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-10 14:10 ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-04-10 13:35 ` root
2001-04-10 14:22 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-10 15:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-12 5:25 ` watermodem
2001-04-12 8:45 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-10 17:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-10 17:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-10 17:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-10 18:17 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-10 18:24 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-10 19:28 ` george anzinger
2001-04-10 20:02 ` mark salisbury
2001-04-10 22:08 ` george anzinger
2001-04-11 0:48 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-11 2:35 ` george anzinger
2001-04-12 0:24 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-11 16:11 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-11 16:59 ` george anzinger
2001-04-11 18:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-11 19:21 ` John Alvord
2001-04-12 8:41 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2001-08-01 1:08 ` george anzinger
2001-08-11 11:57 ` Pavel Machek
2001-08-14 15:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-08-14 16:57 ` george anzinger
2001-04-10 19:50 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2001-04-11 11:42 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-11 16:13 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-12 9:51 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-04-10 19:42 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2001-04-10 12:19 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-10 17:51 ` yodaiken
2001-04-11 18:43 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-04-10 12:11 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-10 5:51 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-10 9:33 ` Martin Mares
2001-04-10 10:00 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-10 12:14 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-11 5:55 ` Karim Yaghmour
2001-04-10 11:18 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-10 12:02 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-10 12:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-10 12:27 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-10 12:32 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-10 12:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-10 12:37 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-10 18:45 ` Stephen D. Williams
2001-04-10 19:59 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-10 12:07 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-10 12:45 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-10 12:42 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-10 12:54 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-10 7:27 schwidefsky
2001-04-10 7:29 schwidefsky
2001-04-10 11:38 schwidefsky
2001-04-10 11:54 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-10 12:54 schwidefsky
2001-04-10 14:42 schwidefsky
2001-04-11 9:06 schwidefsky
2001-04-11 17:56 No 100 HZ timer! Bret Indrelee
2001-04-12 17:39 ` george anzinger
2001-04-12 21:19 ` Bret Indrelee
2001-04-12 22:20 ` george anzinger
2001-04-13 4:00 ` Bret Indrelee
2001-04-13 6:32 ` Ben Greear
2001-04-13 8:42 ` george anzinger
2001-04-13 10:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-13 16:07 ` george anzinger
2001-04-13 23:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-13 12:05 ` Horst von Brand
2001-04-13 21:53 ` george anzinger
2001-04-13 23:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-16 3:02 ` Ben Greear
2001-04-16 2:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-16 12:36 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-16 19:19 ` george anzinger
2001-04-16 20:45 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-16 21:29 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-04-16 22:25 ` george anzinger
2001-04-16 23:57 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-17 0:45 ` george anzinger
2001-04-17 12:12 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-17 12:51 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-17 18:53 ` george anzinger
2001-04-17 19:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-23 8:05 ` Ulrich Windl
2001-04-23 13:22 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-04-16 2:41 ` Ben Greear
2001-04-12 12:58 No 100 HZ timer ! Mark Salisbury
2001-04-12 13:14 No 100 HZ timer! Bret Indrelee
2001-08-01 17:22 No 100 HZ timer ! george anzinger
2001-08-01 19:34 ` Chris Friesen
2001-08-01 19:49 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-01 20:08 ` Mark Salisbury
2001-08-01 20:33 ` george anzinger
2001-08-01 21:20 ` george anzinger
2001-08-02 4:28 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-02 6:03 ` george anzinger
2001-08-02 14:39 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-02 16:36 ` george anzinger
2001-08-02 17:05 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-02 17:46 ` george anzinger
2001-08-02 18:41 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-02 21:18 ` george anzinger
2001-08-02 22:09 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-08-02 17:26 ` John Alvord
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