We had incidents involving gazillions of concurrent posix timers.

Benjamin Segall is planning to add a cond_resched() in exit_itimers()

In this small series, I am reducing hash_lock contention in posix_timer_add()

Eric Dumazet (2):
  posix-timers: Make next_posix_timer_id an atomic_t
  posix-timers: Use RCU in posix_timer_add()

 include/linux/sched/signal.h |  2 +-
 kernel/time/posix-timers.c   | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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