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, 14 Aug 2010 22:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100814.224300.212702574.davem@davemloft.net> References: 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]:34258 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751459Ab0HOFmm (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:42:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Min Zhang Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:50:37 -0700 (PDT) > ipv6: remove sysctl jiffies conversion on gc_elasticity and > min_adv_mss > > 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 Applied, thank you.