Re: [PATCHSET] timer: clean up initializers and implement irqsafetimers

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 17:18 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Let's see if we can agree on the latter point first.  Do you agree
> that it wouldn't be a good idea to implement relatively complex timer
> subsystem inside workqueue? 

RB-trees are fairly trivial to use, but can we please get back to why
people want to do del/mod delayed work from IRQ context?

I can get the queueing part, but why do they need to cancel and or
modify stuff?

Trying to come up with a solution to a problem you don't understand is
kinda difficult.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/