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Message-ID: <20070912100054.GA3649@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:00:54 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET : convert IP route cache garbage colleciton from softirq processing to a workqueue
This looks nice in general, getting things out of softirq context is
always good.
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:56:13PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> #if RT_CACHE_DEBUG >= 2
> static atomic_t dst_total = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> #endif
> -static unsigned long dst_gc_timer_expires;
> -static unsigned long dst_gc_timer_inc = DST_GC_MAX;
> -static void dst_run_gc(unsigned long);
> +static struct {
> + spinlock_t lock;
> + struct dst_entry *list;
> + unsigned long timer_inc;
> + unsigned long timer_expires;
> +} dst_garbage = {
> + .lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(dst_garbage.lock),
> + .timer_inc = DST_GC_MAX,
> +};
Can you please et rid of this useless struct? It just complicates
the code and means we can't use the proper DEFINE_SPINLOCK initializer.
> +DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(dst_gc_work, dst_gc_task);
This should be static.
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