Re: [RFC 2/2] timers: Make sure irq_work is handled when no pending timers

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jun 22 2021 - 09:44:41 EST


On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 12:47:04AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> There are two solutions:
>
> 1) Create a IRQ_WORK softirq and raise that
>
> 2) Simply delegate it to a workqueue

IIRC someone was looking to stick the whole thing in a kthread_worker.
Jiri, was that you?