Re: [PATCH 2/9] timers: provide a "modern" variant of timers

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On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:57:31AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> How expensive would it be to add another field to timer_list and
> just have both pointers?

That would add 4/8 bytes to every structure containing a timer,
so I'd rather avoid it if possible.  But one option might be to
inflict this onto users of outdated compilers and use the union
for modern ones.
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