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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, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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