Re: [PATCH v2 00/37] hrtimer: Provide softirq context hrtimers

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Oct 23 2017 - 12:08:28 EST


On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 11:39:38PM +0200, Anna-Maria Gleixner wrote:
> This series implements a new approach by adding SOFT hrtimer mode and
> instead of doing the list shuffle, timers started with this mode are put
> into separate soft expiry hrtimer queues. These queues are evaluated only
> when the hardirq context detects that the first expiring timer in the
> softirq queues has expired. That makes the overhead in the hardirq context
> minimal.

Thanks!

1-29,33: Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>