From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:34:44 +0200
> On loaded/big hosts, rt_check_expire() if of litle use, because it
> generally breaks out of its main loop because of a jiffies change.
>
> It can take a long time (read : timer invocations) to actually
> scan the whol
On loaded/big hosts, rt_check_expire() if of litle use, because it
generally breaks out of its main loop because of a jiffies change.
It can take a long time (read : timer invocations) to actually
scan the whole hash table, freeing unused entries.
Converting it to use a workqueue instead of softi