[RFC v2 2/2] eal: add high-performance timer facility

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 18:03:42 +0100
Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com> wrote:

> The htimer library attempts at providing a timer facility with roughly
> the same functionality, but less overhead and better scalability than
> DPDK timer library.

I don't understand. Why not just fix and extend existing timers.
Sure you will need to add some API's and maybe drop some of the existing
experimental ones (ie alt_timer). Even change the ABI.

It would be better to have one high performance, scaleable timer than
spend the next 3 years telling users which one to use and why!

So please make rte_timer work better in 23.11 release rather
than reinventing a new variant.