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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1504111124020.3845@nanos>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 11:25:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>
cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: kernel/timer: avoid spurious ksoftirqd wakeups (v2)
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:09:07 -0300
> > It seems a valid solution for this interrupt is to program
> > sched_timer to the nearest future possible.
>
> What about calling the timer function right there, like
> hrtimer_interrupt() does?
No, you cannot call the timer function from the enqueue path. The
caller might hold a lock which is taken in the callback as well.....
Thanks,
tglx
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