From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: yunhong jiang Subject: The timer softirq on the RT kernel Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 17:36:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20160804173641.4defb00b@jnakajim-build> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org To: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-rt-users.vger.kernel.org Hi,Mike & Steven On https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/24/1178, the patch of "timers: do not raise softirq unconditionally" is reverted. Thanks for Steven's detailed comments, it's quite clear explained. I remember Mike has a patch trying to fix it but late abandoned. Do you still have any plan to work on this? Otherwise, I will have a try. Thanks --jyh