Hi Jan, On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ingo Molnar pointed out that sending the timer signal to the whole > process, just blocking it everywhere, is suboptimal with an increasing > number of threads. QEMU is using this pattern so far. I am not familiar with this code, but don't you already need to block SIGALRM properly in all threads for OSes != Linux ? If so, isn't this patch redundant? Alexandre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html