On Dec 20, 2007 12:10 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thinking about it more, this looks like a case for just using round_jiffies().
> The GC timer needs to run to clean up under DoS attack, and deferring it 
> probably
> isn't a good idea.

But what are the chances that a DoSed machine will be idling which
will prevent the GC timer to run? I would think there would be lot of
other activities going on (including non-deferrable timers running)
that will avoid this situation?

Parag
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