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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] timer: Avoid waking up an idle-core by migrate running timer
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 02:54:55PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 23:32 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> >
> > Are you realizing that __mod_timer() is a massive hotpath for network
> > heavy workloads?
>
> BTW I was considering using mod_timer_pinned() from these networking
> timers (ie sk_reset_timer())
>
> get_nohz_timer_target() sounds cool for laptop users, but is one cause
> for bad responses to DDOS, when the selected cpu gets stressed.
>
> This is the reason I used mod_timer_pinned() in commit 789f558cfb3680ae
> ("tcp/dccp: get rid of central timewait timer")

Hmm, that sounds unfortunate, this would wreck life for the power aware
laptop/tablet etc.. people.

There is already a sysctl to manage this, is that not enough to mitigate
this problem on the server side of things?


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