linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] (revised) net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c: replace timer with delayed

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Message-Id: <20080502.165455.24687234.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 02 May 2008 16:54:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...l.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] (revised) net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c: replace timer with
 delayed_work

From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:35:55 +0800 (CST)

> 
> As suggested by Herbert Xu, using workqueue is better than timer
> for net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c, so replace them with delayed_work.
> And due to this change, we have to disable BH when trying to
> lock.
> 
> Note that, this patch is not fully tested, so should be
> in -mm first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@...ux.org>

Please let me know when these two patches have gotten some
good testing.
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