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SubjectRe: NMI watchdog + NOHZ question
> > Ah you have a one shot timer and it gets rescheduled in the softirq?
> > If yes why not in doing that directly in the hardirq handler?
>
> Then what's the point of the generic timer code supporting one-shot
> clock sources? :-)

Well it would avoid that problem at least (I think based on your
description). Somehow you need to reschedule the timer before the softirq.

I guess you could have a generic function that is callable from hardirq
directly?

-Andi

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