netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: remove sysctl jiffies conversion on gc_elasticity and min_adv

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Date:	Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:43:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mzhang@...sta.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: remove sysctl jiffies conversion on
 gc_elasticity and min_adv_ms

From: Min Zhang <mzhang@...sta.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:50:37 -0700 (PDT)

> ipv6: remove sysctl jiffies conversion on gc_elasticity and
> min_adv_mss
> 
> sysctl output ipv6 gc_elasticity and min_adv_mss as values divided by
> HZ. However, they are not in unit of jiffies, since ip6_rt_min_advmss
> refers to packet size and ip6_rt_fc_elasticity is used as scaler as in
> expire>>ip6_rt_gc_elasticity, so replace the jiffies conversion
> handler will regular handler for them.
> 
> This has impact on scripts that are currently working assuming the
> divide by HZ, will yield different results with this patch in place.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Min Zhang <mzhang@...sta.com>

Applied, thank you.
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