Re: [PATCH v9 27/32] timers: Check if timers base is handled already

Sebastian Siewior
2023-12-06T10:58:14Z

On 2023-12-01 10:26:49 [+0100], Anna-Maria Behnsen wrote:
> Due to the conversion of the NOHZ timer placement to a pull at expiry
> time model, the per CPU timer bases with non pinned timers are no
> longer handled only by the local CPU. In case a remote CPU already
> expires the non pinned timers base of the local cpu, nothing more
CPU

so it is consistent with the other.

> needs to be done by the local CPU. A check at the begin of the expire
> timers routine is required, because timer base lock is dropped before
> executing the timer callback function.
>
> This is a preparatory work, but has no functional impact right now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>

Sebastian