From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 14:59:43 -0700
> linux-4.16 got support for softirq based hrtimers. > TCP can switch its pacing hrtimer to this variant, since this > avoids going through a tasklet and some atomic operations. > > pacing timer logic looks like other (jiffies based) tcp timers. > > v2: use hrtimer_try_to_cancel() in tcp_clear_xmit_timers() > to correctly release reference on socket if needed. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Looks great, applied, thanks Eric.