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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] Re: HTB accuracy for high speed
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:01:24 +0000
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On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:53:11AM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
...
> Yes, it would work perfectly fine with usecs, which is actually (and
> unfortunately) the unit it uses in its ABI. But I think its better
> to convert the values once during initialization, instead of again
> and again when scheduling the watchdog. The necessary changes are
> really trivial, all you need to do when changing the scaling factors
> is to increase SM_MASK and decrease ISM_MASK accordingly.

Right! (On the other hand we could consider a separate watchdog too...)

Jarek P.