Re: [PATCH] relay: Use irq_work instead of plain timer for deferred wakeup

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[PATCH] relay: Use irq_work instead of plain timer for deferred wakeup

From: Peter Zijlstra Relay avoids calling wake_up_interruptible() for doing the wakeup of readers/consumers, waiting for the generation of new data, from the context of a process which produced the data. This is apparently done to prevent the possibility of a deadlock in case Scheduler itself is