Re: [RFC] IPV4 long lasting timer function

2005-08-18 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 22:59 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Hi, > > while tracking down some timer related ugliness I stumbled over the > timer driven function rt_secret_rebuild(), which does a loop over > rt_has_mask (1024 in my case) entries and possibly some subsequent > variable sized loops in

Re: [RFC] IPV4 long lasting timer function

2005-08-17 Thread David S. Miller
From: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:59:01 +0200 > Shouldn't this be converted to a workqueue, which gets triggered by a > timer instead of blocking the timer softirq and therefor the delivery of > other timer functions that long ? We could, and I'd be happy to appl

[RFC] IPV4 long lasting timer function

2005-08-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Hi, while tracking down some timer related ugliness I stumbled over the timer driven function rt_secret_rebuild(), which does a loop over rt_has_mask (1024 in my case) entries and possibly some subsequent variable sized loops inside each step. On a 300MHZ PPC system this accumulated to a worst ca