netdev - Re: [PATCH] [RFC] allow admin/users to specify rto_min in milliseconds rather than jiffies

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20070905073801.2f12991b@oldman>
Date:	Wed, 5 Sep 2007 07:38:01 +0100
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] allow admin/users to specify rto_min in
 milliseconds rather than jiffies

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:20:47 -0700 (PDT)
Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com> wrote:

> Build upon David Miller's initial patches to set the per-route rto_min
> so users can specify the rto_min in the same units (milliseconds) in
> which they are displayed.  This is desirable because asking users to
> convert to and from jiffies themselves, when there can be different
> values of HZ from system to system would be error prone.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
> ---

The api in netlink should be in milliseconds rather than compensating
in the application (iproute2).
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html