We continued analyzing the msleep() behaviour. I tested running msleep()
(without TPM interactions), by writing a kernel module that runs
msleep() in a loop for a fixed number of iterations.
Based on these test results, as shown below, the observations are:
1. Non-cascading timers, as
On Thu, 2017-03-02 at 10:33 +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 12:29:02PM -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 19:01 +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 06:46:18PM -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > > > Commit 500462a9de65 "timers: Switch to a
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 06:46:18PM -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> Commit 500462a9de65 "timers: Switch to a non-cascading wheel" replaced
> the 'classic' timer wheel, which aimed for near 'exact' expiry of the
> timers. Their analysis was that the vast majority of timeout timers
> are used as
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 06:46:18PM -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> Commit 500462a9de65 "timers: Switch to a non-cascading wheel" replaced
> the 'classic' timer wheel, which aimed for near 'exact' expiry of the
> timers. Their analysis was that the vast majority of timeout timers
> are used as
