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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:26:56 +0100

> This avoids scheduling in atomic context and also means that IRQs
> will only be deferred for relatively short periods of time.
> 
> Previously discussed in:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/155024
> 
> Reported-by: Arne Nordmark <nordmark@mech.kth.se>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

Applied.