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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: tgraf@suug.ch, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
	linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about QOS
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 14:40:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050503144032.25ea921d.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <427225B2.6010705@trash.net>

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:16:50 +0200
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:

> Thomas Graf wrote:
> > * Nicolas DICHTEL <426F42F0.9020609@6wind.com> 2005-04-27 09:44
> > 
> >>>Yes I agree, it doesn't really matter what value we return and `bound'
> >>>is most likely to be correct. I think we should also fix the unlikely
> >>>but still possible case when tv1.tv_usec is slightly smaller than
> >>>tv2.tv_usec. I know it is very unlikely but do_gettimeofday really
> >>>is not that reliable and we have users which rely on a positive
> >>>delta. Can you extend your patch to return abs(delta) for case 0
> >>>in PSCHED_TDIFF_SAFE?
> 
> Why abs(delta)? It could be above bound, in fact all cases besides
> delta_sec > 2 doesn't take care to stay inside [0..bound] at all.

Applied, thanks Patrick.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-03 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-26  9:16 Question about QOS Nicolas DICHTEL
2005-04-26 12:59 ` Thomas Graf
2005-04-26 14:57   ` Nicolas DICHTEL
2005-04-26 19:14     ` Thomas Graf
2005-04-27  7:44       ` Nicolas DICHTEL
2005-04-27 11:42         ` Thomas Graf
2005-04-28 19:14           ` David S. Miller
2005-04-29 12:16           ` Patrick McHardy
2005-04-29 12:39             ` Thomas Graf
2005-05-03 21:40             ` David S. Miller [this message]

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