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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Geoff Gustafson <geoff@linux.jf.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Performance of del_timer_sync
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Geoff Gustafson <geoff@linux.jf.intel.com> wrote:
>
> I started this patch based on profiling an enterprise database application
>  on a 32p IA64 NUMA machine, where del_timer_sync was one of the top few
>  functions taking CPU time in the kernel.

Do you know where it's being called from?