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

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Tue Jun 22 2021 - 13:33:31 EST


On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 03:44:23PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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?
>

yep, I still plan on doing that

jirka