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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>,
	linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, frederic@kernel.org,
	mtosatti@redhat.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] timers: Make sure irq_work is handled when no pending timers
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 19:33:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YNIe38WaY0lOTEAZ@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YNHpN1h5hEZdt+Au@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 03:44:23PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 12:47:04AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > There are two solutions:
> > 
> >   1) Create a IRQ_WORK softirq and raise that
> > 
> >   2) Simply delegate it to a workqueue
> 
> IIRC someone was looking to stick the whole thing in a kthread_worker.
> Jiri, was that you?
> 

yep, I still plan on doing that

jirka


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-22 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20210610125945.558872-1-nsaenzju@redhat.com>
2021-06-18 21:06 ` [RFC 1/2] timers: Add pending timer bool in struct timer_base Thomas Gleixner
     [not found] ` <20210610125945.558872-2-nsaenzju@redhat.com>
2021-06-18 22:47   ` [RFC 2/2] timers: Make sure irq_work is handled when no pending timers Thomas Gleixner
2021-06-19  8:22     ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-06-22 13:44     ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-06-22 17:33       ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2021-06-22 17:42         ` Jiri Olsa

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