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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next-2.6] netfilter: {ip,ip6,arp}_tables: dont block
 bottom half more than necessary
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:54:08 +0200
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On 23.07.2010 17:23, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> We currently disable BH for the whole duration of get_counters()
> 
> On machines with a lot of cpus and large tables, this might be too long.
> 
> We can disable preemption during the whole function, and disable BH only
> while fetching counters for the current cpu.
> 

Applied, thanks Eric.