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Commit e5dc5aff authored by Judy Hsiao's avatar Judy Hsiao Committed by David S. Miller
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neighbour: Don't let neigh_forced_gc() disable preemption for long



We are seeing cases where neigh_cleanup_and_release() is called by
neigh_forced_gc() many times in a row with preemption turned off.
When running on a low powered CPU at a low CPU frequency, this has
been measured to keep preemption off for ~10 ms. That's not great on a
system with HZ=1000 which expects tasks to be able to schedule in
with ~1ms latency.

Suggested-by: default avatarDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJudy Hsiao <judyhsiao@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDouglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 179a8b51
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