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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] iproute2 : invalid burst/cburst calculation with hrtimers
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 10:07:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090202100742.690e0c8d@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902021926.17768.denys@visp.net.lb>

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:26:17 +0200
Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@visp.net.lb> wrote:

> ------------->
> iproute2 : invalid burst/cburst calculation with hrtimers
> 
> If hrtimers on, /proc/net/psched shows 4th variable 
> as 1000000000
> Because burst calculated by division rate to this variable, 
> it will be almost always zero. As result, we will get higher system 
> load on low rates, and on high rates shaper will not able to process 
> data. So it is kind of critical bugfix for systems with hrtimers.
> It is checked and proved. Core 2 Quad was not able to 
> shape 200Mbps, and gave only 180-190. It is more safe to set it 
> to 1000HZ. If user wants, he can set custom "env" HZ variable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denys Fedoryschenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
> ---
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------

I would rather this be converted to floating point.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-02 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-02 17:26 [PATCH] [RESEND] iproute2 : invalid burst/cburst calculation with hrtimers Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-02-02 18:07 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-02-02 18:21   ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-02-04 21:20     ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-02-04 21:53       ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-02-04 22:26         ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-02-04 22:49           ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-02-04 23:24             ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-02-05  7:38               ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-02-05  9:01                 ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-02-05 10:08                   ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-02-05 11:09                     ` Denys Fedoryschenko
2009-02-05 11:56                       ` Jarek Poplawski

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