Re: [PATCH] clockevents: Prevent timer interrupt starvation

From: Thomas Gleixner

Date: Fri Apr 03 2026 - 18:14:14 EST


On Fri, Apr 03 2026 at 23:24, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 03 2026 at 23:01, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 03, 2026 at 06:17:15PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>
>> Doesn't that want to be something like this instead?
>
> Duh. Yes. I'm clearly not seeing the forest for the trees anymore.

But thinking more about it. That's a stretch for backporting.

So I rather stay with the current approach and do the cleanup on top,
which then also should obviously do

dev->next_event = KTIME_MAX;

and remove it from the handlers, no?

Thanks,

tglx