netdev - Re: [patch 03/19] user of the jiffies rounding code: e1000

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Date:	Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:20:50 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, arjan@...ux.intel.com,
	auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com
Subject: Re: [patch 03/19] user of the jiffies rounding code: e1000

akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Use the round_jiffies() function in e1000.
> 
> These timers all were of the "about once a second" or "about once every X
> seconds" variety and several showed up in the "what wakes the cpu up" profiles
> that the tickless patches provide.  Some timers are highly dynamic based on
> network load; but even on low activity systems they still show up so the
> rounding is done only in cases of low activity, allowing higher frequency
> timers in the high activity case.
> 
> The various hardware watchdogs are an obvious case; they run every 2 seconds
> but aren't otherwise specific of exactly when they need to run.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
> Acked-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |    6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

applied 3-4 to #upstream (2.6.22)


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