[RFC v2 0/2] Add high-performance timer facility

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 18:03:40 +0100
Mattias Rönnblom <mattias.ronnblom at ericsson.com> wrote:

> This patchset is an attempt to introduce a high-performance, highly
> scalable timer facility into DPDK.
> 
> More specifically, the goals for the htimer library are:
> 
> * Efficient handling of a handful up to hundreds of thousands of
>   concurrent timers.
> * Make adding and canceling timers low-overhead, constant-time
>   operations.
> * Provide a service functionally equivalent to that of
>   <rte_timer.h>. API/ABI backward compatibility is secondary.

Worthwhile goals, and the problem needs to be addressed.
But this patch never got accepted.

Please fix/improve/extend existing rte_timer instead.