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

[Jiri Olsa]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 07:33:23PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> 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

hum, IIRC that was actually perf specific change we discussed some
time ago I should have read the whole thread before answering

I'll check what was my plan to do and get back ;-)

jirka