Re: [GIT pull] Timer core updates for 4.16

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:48 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   - A rather large rework of the hrtimer infrastructure which introduces
>     softirq based hrtimers to replace the spread of hrtimer/tasklet combos
>     which force the actual callback execution into softirq context.

I really would have liked to see more of the rationale for this - now
I'm left with just two example drivers, and a "you'll see the cleanups
this allows in future driver pulls".

But pulled, since the code doesn't look disgusting.

              Linus