From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: remove sysctl jiffies conversion on gc_elasticity and min_adv_ms Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100724.210305.59676046.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4C48BA82.6020904@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: mzhang@mvista.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49246 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750716Ab0GYECt (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:02:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C48BA82.6020904@mvista.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Min Zhang Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:39:14 -0700 > sysctl output ipv6 gc_elasticity and min_adv_mss as values divided by > HZ. However, they are not in unit of jiffies, since ip6_rt_min_advmss > refers to packet size and ip6_rt_fc_elasticity is used as scaler as in > expire>>ip6_rt_gc_elasticity, so replace the jiffies conversion > handler will regular handler for them. > > This has impact on scripts that are currently working assuming the > divide by HZ, will yield different results with this patch in place. > > Signed-off-by: Min Zhang Your email client corrupted your patch, turning tab characters into spaces. This makes your patch unusable. Please resubmit this patch properly so that I can use it. Thanks.