Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, HighResolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 16:39 -0700, George Anzinger wrote:
> I haven't looked at this new code all that closely as yet.  One thing I 
> did notice is that there is an assumption that the "timer being 
> delivered flag" can be shared between LR timers and HR timers.  I 
> suspect this is wrong as the delivery code is in seperate threads (I 
> assume).  This could lead to del_timer_async missing a timer.

You're right, I found this yesterday night. Silly me.

This happened when I moved the hr timers into the tvec_t_base_s
structure due to Olegs  changes to the timer_list and the deletion code.

tglx


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