Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Tue Dec 02 2025 - 08:23:12 EST
On 2025-12-02 13:39:56 [+0100], Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 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?
Just an optimisation if I am not mistaken but it will conflict if not
backported.
> Jan
Sebastian