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David Vernet
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BPF supports creating high resolution timers using bpf_timer_* helper functions. Currently, only the BPF_F_TIMER_ABS flag is supported, which specifies that the timeout should be interpreted as absolute time. It would also be useful to be able to pin that timer to a core. For example, if you wanted to make a subset of cores run without timer interrupts, and only have the timer be invoked on a single core. This patch adds support for this with a new BPF_F_TIMER_CPU_PIN flag. When specified, the HRTIMER_MODE_PINNED flag is passed to hrtimer_start(). A subsequent patch will update selftests to validate. Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Acked-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231004162339.200702-2-void@manifault.com
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