netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: neighbor timer power saving

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Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:16:21 -0500
From:	"Parag Warudkar" <parag.warudkar@...il.com>
To:	"Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Eric Dumazet" <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: neighbor timer power saving

On Dec 20, 2007 12:10 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Thinking about it more, this looks like a case for just using round_jiffies().
> The GC timer needs to run to clean up under DoS attack, and deferring it probably
> isn't a good idea.

But what are the chances that a DoSed machine will be idling which
will prevent the GC timer to run? I would think there would be lot of
other activities going on (including non-deferrable timers running)
that will avoid this situation?

Parag
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