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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:11:12 -0700 From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com> To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] allow admin/users to specify rto_min in milliseconds rather than jiffies Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:20:47 -0700 (PDT) > Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...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@...com> >>--- > > > The api in netlink should be in milliseconds rather than compensating > in the application (iproute2). In unrelated work I found myself using tc to setup some WAN emulation. There I noticed that one can specify times using a units suffix. So, one can say 100ms, 100us, or 100s. That seems like a nice, friendly interface. I've not looked yet to see if it was converting up in tc and then passing a consistent unit to the kernel, or if all the conversion was happening in the kernel. rick jones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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