Re: The timer softirq on the RT kernel

[yunhong jiang]

On Fri, 05 Aug 2016 04:36:23 +0200
Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 17:36 -0700, yunhong jiang wrote:
> > Hi,Mike & Steven
> > 	On https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/24/1178, the patch of
> > "timers: do not raise softirq unconditionally" is reverted. Thanks
> > for Steven's
> > detailed comments, it's quite clear explained.
> > 	I remember Mike has a patch trying to fix it but late
> > abandoned. Do you still have any plan to work on this? Otherwise, I
> > will have a try.
> 
> Sebastian converted the lock to raw in -rt, so nohz_full now works
> without any extra hackery.

Hi, Mike, thanks for reply and the update. I still noticed timer softirq
on my isolated CPUs, possibly something wrong on my environment. I will
re-check it.

Thanks
--jyh

> 
> 	-Mike