[PATCH 00/36] hrtimer: Provide softirq context hrtimers

2017-11-29 Thread Anna-Maria Gleixner
There are quite some places in the kernel which use a combination of hrtimers and tasklets to make use of the precise expiry of hrtimers, which schedule a tasklet to bring the actual function into softirq context. This was introduced when the previous hrtimer softirq code was removed. That code

[PATCH 00/36] hrtimer: Provide softirq context hrtimers

2017-11-29 Thread Anna-Maria Gleixner
There are quite some places in the kernel which use a combination of hrtimers and tasklets to make use of the precise expiry of hrtimers, which schedule a tasklet to bring the actual function into softirq context. This was introduced when the previous hrtimer softirq code was removed. That code