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Date:	Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:37:25 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	andi@...stfloor.org (Andi Kleen)
Cc:	dada1@...mosbay.com, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET : rt_check_expire() can take a long time, add a cond_resched()

Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
>
> A cheaper change might have been to just limit the number of buckets
> scanned.

Actually the whole point of moving it out to process context
is so that we don't have to worry about keeping track of the number
of buckets since deciding on how many buckets to process is black
magic.

IMHO preemption is the answer :) But failing that, a resched
is the next best thing.

Cheers,
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