From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [2/2] [NET] link_watch: Remove delay for up even when we're down Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 18:36:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20070508.183646.130238577.davem@davemloft.net> References: <463F95C3.60407@goop.org> <20070508121322.GA21647@gondor.apana.org.au> <20070508121609.GA24763@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070508121609.GA24763@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Cc: jeremy@goop.org, hch@infradead.org, ak@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org, ian.pratt@xensource.com, Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, shemminge@linux-foundation.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org From: Herbert Xu Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 22:16:09 +1000 > [NET]: Remove link_watch delay for up even when we're down > > Currently all link carrier events are delayed by up to a second > before they're processed to prevent link storms. This causes > unnecessary packet loss during that interval. > > In fact, we can achieve the same effect in preventing storms by > only delaying down events and unnecssary up events. The latter > is defined as up events when we're already up. > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Also applied, thanks Herbert.