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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: timerfd question
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 10:41:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YY42tq3Ug/qqUCMJ@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02bf0670-ab2f-8bb2-a882-0ef8902bd791@cornell.edu>

On Nov 11 17:52, Ken Brown wrote:
> This question is almost certainly too vague to be answerable, but I'll try
> anyway.  Is there any obvious reason that it's bad to have two timers
> running simultaneously, one using timerfd (started via timerfd_settime) and
> one using a POSIX timer (started via timer_settime)?

They don't share code, nor threads.  I don't see a reason they should
influence each other.  Both are starting timers and handle them
in independent threads.

> Here's the context: Emacs runs timers.  Until recently it used timerfd if
> available, and otherwise a POSIX timer.  After a recent change, it starts
> both kinds of timers.  This causes a severe slowdown on Cygwin
> (https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=51734#32).  The easiest thing
> is just to disable that change on Cygwin, but I'd feel better understanding
> why this is a problem.

A STC might be helpful.


Corinna

      reply	other threads:[~2021-11-12  9:41 UTC|newest]

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2021-11-11 22:52 Ken Brown
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