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Subject: Re: [RFC] IPV4 long lasting timer function
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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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 apply such a patch if someone
writes it up.