From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] allow admin/users to specify rto_min in milliseconds rather than jiffies
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 07:38:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070905073801.2f12991b@oldman> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709042020.NAA29612@tardy.cup.hp.com>
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:20:47 -0700 (PDT)
Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> wrote:
> Build upon David Miller's initial patches to set the per-route rto_min
> so users can specify the rto_min in the same units (milliseconds) in
> which they are displayed. This is desirable because asking users to
> convert to and from jiffies themselves, when there can be different
> values of HZ from system to system would be error prone.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
> ---
The api in netlink should be in milliseconds rather than compensating
in the application (iproute2).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-05 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-04 20:20 [PATCH] [RFC] allow admin/users to specify rto_min in milliseconds rather than jiffies Rick Jones
2007-09-05 6:38 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-09-05 17:11 ` Rick Jones
2007-09-06 21:17 ` Rick Jones
2007-09-12 20:28 ` Rick Jones
2007-09-13 8:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-13 16:56 ` Rick Jones
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