netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/4] Make net watchdog timers 1 sec jiffy aligned

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Date:	Wed, 30 May 2007 12:55:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Make net watchdog timers 1 sec jiffy aligned

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 20:42:32 +0200

> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >>>Index: linux-2.6.22-rc-mm/net/sched/sch_generic.c
> >>>===================================================================
> >>>--- linux-2.6.22-rc-mm.orig/net/sched/sch_generic.c	2007-05-24 11:16:03.000000000 -0700
> >>>+++ linux-2.6.22-rc-mm/net/sched/sch_generic.c	2007-05-25 15:10:02.000000000 -0700
> >>>@@ -224,7 +224,8 @@
> >>> 	if (dev->tx_timeout) {
> >>> 		if (dev->watchdog_timeo <= 0)
> >>> 			dev->watchdog_timeo = 5*HZ;
> >>>-		if (!mod_timer(&dev->watchdog_timer, jiffies + dev->watchdog_timeo))
> >>>+		if (!mod_timer(&dev->watchdog_timer,
> >>>+			       round_jiffies(jiffies + dev->watchdog_timeo)))
> >>> 			dev_hold(dev);
> >>> 	}
> >>> }
> >>
> >>Please cc netdev on net patches.
> >>
> >>Again, I worry that if people set the watchdog timeout to, say, 0.1 seconds
> >>then they will get one second, which is grossly different.
> >>
> >>And if they were to set it to 1.5 seconds, they'd get 2.0 which is pretty
> >>significant, too.
> > 
> > 
> > Alternatively, we could change to a timer that is pushed forward after each
> > TX, maybe using hrtimer and hrtimer_forward().  That way the timer would
> > never run in normal case.
> 
> 
> 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, this change is absolutely rediculious and is just a blind
cookie-cutter change made without consideration of what the code is
doing and what it's requirements are.

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