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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:15:57 -0800 From: David Decotigny <david.decotigny@...gle.com> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>, Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Szymon Janc <szymon@...c.net.pl>, Richard Jones <rick.jones2@...com>, Ayaz Abdulla <AAbdulla@...dia.com>, David Decotigny <david.decotigny@...gle.com> Subject: [PATCH net-next v5 09/10] forcedeth: stats updated with a deferrable timer Mark stats timer as deferrable: punctuality in waking the stats timer callback doesn't matter much, as it is responsible only to avoid integer wraparound. We need at least 1 other timer to fire within 17s (fully loaded 1Gbps) to avoid wrap-arounds. Desired period is still 10s. Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <david.decotigny@...gle.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c index d9b5a4d..5d436b5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c @@ -5534,7 +5534,7 @@ static int __devinit nv_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, const struct pci_device_i init_timer(&np->nic_poll); np->nic_poll.data = (unsigned long) dev; np->nic_poll.function = nv_do_nic_poll; /* timer handler */ - init_timer(&np->stats_poll); + init_timer_deferrable(&np->stats_poll); np->stats_poll.data = (unsigned long) dev; np->stats_poll.function = nv_do_stats_poll; /* timer handler */ -- 1.7.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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