netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 07/12] rhashtable: add schedule points

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Message-ID: <20180331041942.GA29594@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:   Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:19:42 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>,
        Stefan Schmidt <stefan@....samsung.com>,
        Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 07/12] rhashtable: add schedule points

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 01:42:31PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Rehashing and destroying large hash table takes a lot of time,
> and happens in process context. It is safe to add cond_resched()
> in rhashtable_rehash_table() and rhashtable_free_and_destroy()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Thanks,
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