On 2017-02-03 12:21:12 [-0600], Haris Okanovic wrote:

Collect expired timers in interrupt context to avoid overhead of waking
ktimersoftd on every tick. ktimersoftd now wakes only when one or more
timers are ready, which yields a minor reduction in small latency spikes.

This is implemented by storing lists of expired timers in timer_base,
updated on each tick. Any addition to the lists wakes ktimersoftd
(softirq) to process those timers.

Please refer to the following RFC threads for more details:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg16095.html
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg16113.html

Signed-off-by: Haris Okanovic <redacted>

applied.

Sebastian