[sr-dev] git:master:5750b405: usrloc: Updated documentation for 'timer_procs' parameter to clarify purpose of having multiple timer processes.

[Henning Westerholt]

Hello,

as discussed in https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/commit/	5750b405e78de7d2f701708f9c41126c3173d8f5 - commit author Alex Balashov. 

@Alex Balashov - please don't commit directly changes to the README file for these kind of fixes - its done from an automatic script.

Cheers,

Henning

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usrloc: Updated documentation for 'timer_procs' parameter to clarify purpose of having multiple timer processes.

Raised in this sr-users thread by Joel Serrano:

https://lists.kamailio.org/pipermail/sr-users/2020-February/108306.html

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Modified: src/modules/usrloc/README
Modified: src/modules/usrloc/doc/usrloc_admin.xml

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Diff:  https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/commit/5750b405e78de7d2f701708f9c41126c3173d8f5.diff
Patch: https://github.com/kamailio/kamailio/commit/5750b405e78de7d2f701708f9c41126c3173d8f5.patch

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diff --git a/src/modules/usrloc/README b/src/modules/usrloc/README index ff466b0e78..40f9f0f1cd 100644
--- a/src/modules/usrloc/README
+++ b/src/modules/usrloc/README
@@ -854,6 +854,12 @@ modparam("usrloc", "db_check_update", 1)
    set to 0, no dedicated timer is started, the one from core will be
    used.
 
+   If the number of timer processes is greater than 1, the workload 
+   of synchronization and record expiration is split up among the 
+   multiple processes. (Each process is assigned a range of slots 
+   from the internal hash table, and is responsible for cleanup and
+   storage on those slots.)
+
    Default value is “0”.
 
    Example 1.36. Set timer_procs parameter diff --git a/src/modules/usrloc/doc/usrloc_admin.xml b/src/modules/usrloc/doc/usrloc_admin.xml
index 0f14209784..d23b2a9e7e 100644
--- a/src/modules/usrloc/doc/usrloc_admin.xml
+++ b/src/modules/usrloc/doc/usrloc_admin.xml
@@ -952,6 +952,14 @@ modparam("usrloc", "db_check_update", 1)
 			database. If set to 0, no dedicated timer is started, the one from
 			core will be used.
 		</para>
+
+		<para>
+			If the number of timer processes is greater than 1, the workload 
+			of synchronization and record expiration is split up among the 
+			multiple processes. (Each process is assigned a range of slots 
+			from the internal hash table, and is responsible for cleanup and
+			storage on those slots.)
+		</para>
 		<para>
 		<emphasis>
 			Default value is <quote>0</quote>.