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Commit d90bf5a9 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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[NET]: rt_check_expire() can take a long time, add a cond_resched()

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	[IPV4]: Convert rt_check_expire() from softirq processing to workqueue.

we converted rt_check_expire() from softirq to workqueue, allowing the
function to perform all work it was supposed to do.

When the IP route cache is big, rt_check_expire() can take a long time
to run.  (default settings : 20% of the hash table is scanned at each
invocation)

Adding cond_resched() helps giving cpu to higher priority tasks if
necessary.

Using a "if (need_resched())" test before calling "cond_resched();" is
necessary to avoid spending too much time doing the resched check.
(My tests gave a time reduction from 88 ms to 25 ms per
rt_check_expire() run on my i686 test machine)

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 66ba8862
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