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

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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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