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Message-ID: <465DD142.6040409@trash.net>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 21:32:18 +0200
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Make net watchdog timers 1 sec jiffy aligned
Venki Pallipadi wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:42:32PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>>
>>It seems wasteful to add per-packet overhead for tx timeouts, which
>>should be an exception. Do drivers really care about the exact
>>timeout value? Compared to a packet transmission time its incredibly
>>long anyways ..
>
>
> I agree. Doing a mod_timer or hrtimer_forward to push forward may add to the
> complexity depending on how often TX happens.
>
> Are the drivers really worried about exact timeouts here?
Just guessing, but I don't think they are, after all timers can be late.
> Can we use rounding for the timers that are more than a second, at least?
Also sounds reasonable.
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