From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] allow admin/users to specify rto_min in milliseconds rather than jiffies
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:17:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E06E7C.4000407@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070905073801.2f12991b@oldman>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:20:47 -0700 (PDT)
> Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Build upon David Miller's initial patches to set the per-route rto_min
>>so users can specify the rto_min in the same units (milliseconds) in
>>which they are displayed. This is desirable because asking users to
>>convert to and from jiffies themselves, when there can be different
>>values of HZ from system to system would be error prone.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
>>---
>
>
> The api in netlink should be in milliseconds rather than compensating
> in the application (iproute2).
My understanding of the in-kernel rtnetlink code is far from complete,
but it doesn't seem to have much in the way of provisions for unit
conversion, which would suggest no nice suffix-based ui as in tc, and ip
is already doing some massaging of units on the display side for a
couple of the other parameters, so I'm at something of a loss.
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-04 20:20 [PATCH] [RFC] allow admin/users to specify rto_min in milliseconds rather than jiffies Rick Jones
2007-09-05 6:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-05 17:11 ` Rick Jones
2007-09-06 21:17 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2007-09-12 20:28 ` Rick Jones
2007-09-13 8:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-09-13 16:56 ` Rick Jones
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