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From: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:35:04 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5]: Rate-limit DCCP-Syncs
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|  > The default value is set at compilation time when HZ is known. I used jiffies for the
|  > main reason to make this sysctl consistent with the other, similar, runtime variables
|  > which are also in units of jiffies (cf. Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt):
|  > 
|  >  * inet_peer_minttl / inet_peer_maxttl / inet_peer_gc_mintime / inet_peer_gc_maxtime
|  
|  Actually these are in seconds, they use proc_dointvec_jiffies, which
|  takes seconds and converts to jiffies.
I haven't looked at the code - it may be that the information in ip-sysctl.txt is outdated.
  
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|  I agree with Ian that userspace interfaces should use fixed units that
|  don't depend on compile-time options.
|  
Ok,  will convert patch & Documentation to use milliseconds, and send an update later.

Thank you for the input.