On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, David Miller wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 01:34:56 -0400 (EDT)
>
> > My suggestion would be to separate that tg3_timer into 4 different
> > timers, which is what it actually looks like.
>
> Timers have non-trivial cost. It's cheaper to have one and
> vector off to the necessary operations each tick internalls.
>
> That's why it's implemented as one timer.
>
hrtimers don't have the cost of a normal timer. And that's why I suggested
to convert them. There's a much bigger cost in a single timer that always
times out than 3 hrtimers. hrtimers are expected to timeout, but timers
are not.
Of the 4 timers, only one is a timeout. The other three expire every time,
forcing the timer wheel into effect. Even though it's one timer
implementing 4, it's expensive to use it as a watchdog.
-- Steve
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