From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] Re: HTB accuracy for high speed Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:29:58 +0200 Message-ID: <4A263486.1030403@trash.net> References: <298f5c050906020445n3941b4ceic1167a4a028005bf@mail.gmail.com> <20090602123635.GC4239@ff.dom.local> <4A251EEE.4060903@trash.net> <20090602130857.GA7690@ff.dom.local> <4A252714.2020008@trash.net> <20090602213723.GB2850@ami.dom.local> <4A259EB2.5010500@gmail.com> <4A2620FD.8030708@trash.net> <20090603074049.GA5254@ff.dom.local> <4A262BE7.4090807@trash.net> <20090603080123.GA5644@ff.dom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Antonio Almeida , Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, devik@cdi.cz, Eric Dumazet , Vladimir Ivashchenko To: Jarek Poplawski Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:61008 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753916AbZFCI36 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 04:29:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090603080123.GA5644@ff.dom.local> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jarek Poplawski wrote: > 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...) We could :) But I don't see any benefit doing that, especially given that eventually everything should be using ns resolution anyways.