From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24 1/1] sch_htb: fix "too many events" situation Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:17:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20080218.001736.124204016.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080217.232829.222344360.davem@davemloft.net> <47B93BE8.7010905@cdi.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: devik@cdi.cz Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36558 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753290AbYBRIQ7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:16:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47B93BE8.7010905@cdi.cz> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Martin Devera Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:03:52 +0100 > aha, ok, I'm not so informed about crossplatform issues. > I was also thining about looking at jiffies value and stop once > it is startjiffy+2, but with NO_HZ introduction, are jiffies > still incremented ? There should always be at least once cpu tasked with incrementing jiffies. Lots of stuff would break if not :-)