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POSIX timers using the CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID clock prefer the main thread of a thread group for signal delivery. However, this has a significant downside: it requires waking up a potentially idle thread. Instead, prefer to deliver signals to the current thread (in the same thread group) if SIGEV_THREAD_ID is not set by the user. This does not change guaranteed semantics, since POSIX process CPU time timers have never guaranteed that signal delivery is to a specific thread (without SIGEV_THREAD_ID set). The effect is that queueing the signal no longer wakes up potentially idle threads, and the kernel is no longer biased towards delivering the timer signal to any particular thread (which better distributes the timer signals esp. when multiple timers fire concurrently). Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230316123028.2890338-1-elver@google.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.