Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.

From: Jan Kiszka
Date: Tue Dec 02 2025 - 07:40:10 EST


On 02.12.25 09:24, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2025-12-01 22:51:50 [+0100], Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> How should we handle this? Consider 6.12 mainline with -rt and cgroups
>> as potentially broken, asking people to user 6.12-rt? Or port this back?
>
> If you have everything in v6.12 for an useable RT system and this is the
> only missing piece I could ask the stable nicely to backport this.
>

Given that this is a fix for potential lock-up... Does it have
dependencies? The other two patches in this series are optimizations
only, or should they better join the backport?

Jan

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