Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET] timer: clean up initializers and implement irqsafe timers | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:58:27 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 17:18 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > Let's see if we can agree on the latter point first. Do you agree > that it wouldn't be a good idea to implement relatively complex timer > subsystem inside workqueue?
RB-trees are fairly trivial to use, but can we please get back to why people want to do del/mod delayed work from IRQ context?
I can get the queueing part, but why do they need to cancel and or modify stuff?
Trying to come up with a solution to a problem you don't understand is kinda difficult.
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