On 2017-02-03 12:21:12 [-0600], Haris Okanovic wrote: > Collect expired timers in interrupt context to avoid overhead of waking > ktimersoftd on every tick. ktimersoftd now wakes only when one or more > timers are ready, which yields a minor reduction in small latency spikes. > > This is implemented by storing lists of expired timers in timer_base, > updated on each tick. Any addition to the lists wakes ktimersoftd > (softirq) to process those timers. > > Please refer to the following RFC threads for more details: > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg16095.html > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg16113.html > > Signed-off-by: Haris Okanovic <haris.okano...@ni.com>
applied. Sebastian
