Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:53:42 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: NMI watchdog + NOHZ question |
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> > 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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