Re: [PATCH] timers: Use only bucket expiry for base->next_expiry value

Hi Frederic, On Fri, 10 Jul 2020, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Hi Anna-Maria, > > Nice change, it indeed makes more sense that way. > Just a few details below: > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 05:46:22PM +0200, Anna-Maria Behnsen wrote: > > Use the expiry value of the bucket into which the timer is

Re: [PATCH] timers: Use only bucket expiry for base->next_expiry value

Hi Anna-Maria, Nice change, it indeed makes more sense that way. Just a few details below: On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 05:46:22PM +0200, Anna-Maria Behnsen wrote: > The bucket expiry time is the effective expriy time of timers and is > greater than or equal to the requested timer expiry time. This is

[PATCH] timers: Use only bucket expiry for base->next_expiry value

The bucket expiry time is the effective expriy time of timers and is greater than or equal to the requested timer expiry time. This is due to the guarantee that timers never expire early and the reduced expiry granularity in the secondary wheel levels. When a timer is enqueued, trigger_dyntick_cpu