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Re: tx_timeout and timer serialisation

To: andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx (Andrew Morton)
Subject: Re: tx_timeout and timer serialisation
From: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 20:17:24 +0400 (MSK DST)
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, davem@xxxxxxxxxx (Dave Miller)
In-reply-to: <392DB5BE.9841537F@uow.edu.au> from "Andrew Morton" at May 25, 0 11:22:38 pm
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Hello!

> I posted a patch to the async del_timer() behaviour onto linux-kernel
> yesterday.

I'll look now.


> To use refcounting we need a new sort of timer, so the timer core can
> manage their storage.

Khm... Well, it is really universal solution, but I am not sure
in its impact to performance. It looks as redundancy...

Alexey

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