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SubjectRe: High resolution timers and BH processing on -RT

* George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:

> A quick comment here on the current RT code. It looks to me like
> there is a race in timer delivery. It looks like the softirq is
> "raised" by the PIT interrupt code and the jiffie is bumped by the
> timer thread. If the softirq gets to run prior to the PIT interrupt
> thread we could end up in the run_timer list code with a stale jiffie
> value and do nothing. This would delay normal timers for a jiffie and
> HRT timers for some time less than a jiffie, depending on when they
> were really due.
>
> I thing we should move the raising of the timer softirq to the PIT
> interrupt thread after we release the xtime_lock.

ok - mind sending a patch for this?

Ingo
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