diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index 588c99d..329ce01 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -353,9 +353,40 @@
 		 * it should be restarted.
 		 */
 		if (timr->it.real.interval.tv64 != 0) {
+			ktime_t now = hrtimer_cb_get_time(timer);
+
+			/*
+			 * FIXME: What we really want, is to stop this
+			 * timer completely and restart it in case the
+			 * SIG_IGN is removed. This is a non trivial
+			 * change which involves sighand locking
+			 * (sigh !), which we don't want to do late in
+			 * the release cycle.
+			 *
+			 * For now we just let timers with an interval
+			 * less than a jiffie expire every jiffie to
+			 * avoid softirq starvation in case of SIG_IGN
+			 * and a very small interval, which would put
+			 * the timer right back on the softirq pending
+			 * list. By moving now ahead of time we trick
+			 * hrtimer_forward() to expire the timer
+			 * later, while we still maintain the overrun
+			 * accuracy, but have some inconsistency in
+			 * the timer_gettime() case. This is at least
+			 * better than a starved softirq. A more
+			 * complex fix which solves also another related
+			 * inconsistency is already in the pipeline.
+			 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS
+			{
+				ktime_t kj = ktime_set(0, NSEC_PER_SEC / HZ);
+
+				if (timr->it.real.interval.tv64 < kj.tv64)
+					now = ktime_add(now, kj);
+			}
+#endif
 			timr->it_overrun +=
-				hrtimer_forward(timer,
-						hrtimer_cb_get_time(timer),
+				hrtimer_forward(timer, now,
 						timr->it.real.interval);
 			ret = HRTIMER_RESTART;
 			++timr->it_requeue_pending;