> Seems to me that the timer code is attempting to replicate the softirq
> characteristics at the tasklet level, which is a little pointless.
> This patch converts timers to be a first-class softirq citizen.
i agree with your patch.
> Ingo, was there a reason you didn't do it this way to begin with?
because there was an interim state of the timer code in where we still had
a global timer context (ie. a timer tasklet). Only later did it get
converted to completely unsynchronized per-CPU tasklets. Which indeed is
what softirqs are :-)
Ingo
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