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

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Message-ID: <20080503144647.GF3986@hack>
Date:	Sat, 3 May 2008 22:46:49 +0800
From:	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, 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

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:54:55PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>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.

Thanks for your comments, David!

I thought it can go into -mm so that many other people can help
me to test it. Since I didn't have the IPSec environment. ;(

I will try if I can set up one, then test it.

Thanks.
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