From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger 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 Message-ID: <20070905073801.2f12991b@oldman> References: <200709042020.NAA29612@tardy.cup.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Rick Jones Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:32829 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752445AbXIEGhT (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Sep 2007 02:37:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200709042020.NAA29612@tardy.cup.hp.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Rick Jones 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 > --- The api in netlink should be in milliseconds rather than compensating in the application (iproute2).