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From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kernel/timer: avoid spurious ksoftirqd wakeups (v2)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:06:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150413110640.40f137c4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1504111124020.3845@nanos>

On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:25:49 +0200 (CEST)
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:09:07 -0300
> > > It seems a valid solution for this interrupt is to program 
> > > sched_timer to the nearest future possible. 
> > 
> > What about calling the timer function right there, like
> > hrtimer_interrupt() does?
> 
> No, you cannot call the timer function from the enqueue path. The
> caller might hold a lock which is taken in the callback as well.....

Fair enough. We're going to think about a different solution.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx
> 


      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-13 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-06 23:15 kernel/timer: avoid spurious ksoftirqd wakeups (v2) Marcelo Tosatti
2015-04-06 23:20 ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-07 21:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-04-07 22:12   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2015-04-10 18:09     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-04-11  1:30       ` Luiz Capitulino
2015-04-11  9:25         ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-04-13 15:06           ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]

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