On 2024-05-30 12:10:44 [+0100], Qais Yousef wrote: > > This is not consistent because IMHO the clock setup & slack should be > > handled equally. So I am asking the sched folks for a policy and I am > > leaning towards looking at task-policy in this case instead of prio > > because you shouldn't do anything that can delay. > > Can't we do that based on is_soft/is_hard flag in hrtimer struct when we apply > the slack in hrtimer_set_expires_range_ns() instead? We need to decide on a policy first. You don't want to add overhead on each invocation plus some in-kernel ask for delta. ->is_soft is not a good criteria. Sebastian