From: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
To: dccp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5]: Rate-limit DCCP-Syncs
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:35:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704111035.04456@strip-the-willow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704091058.57313@strip-the-willow>
| > 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I haven't looked at the code - it may be that the information in ip-sysctl.txt is outdated.
<snip>
| 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-11 9:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-09 9:58 [PATCH 4/5]: Rate-limit DCCP-Syncs Gerrit Renker
2007-04-11 2:55 ` Ian McDonald
2007-04-11 9:13 ` Gerrit Renker
2007-04-11 9:22 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-04-11 9:35 ` Gerrit Renker [this message]
2007-06-20 9:56 ` Gerrit Renker
2007-07-01 4:01 ` Ian McDonald
2007-09-22 20:16 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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