netdev - Re: [PATCH 2.6.24 1/1] sch_htb: fix "too many events" situation

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Message-Id: <20080218.001736.124204016.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:17:36 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	devik@....cz
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24 1/1] sch_htb: fix "too many events" situation

From: Martin Devera <devik@....cz>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:03:52 +0100

> aha, ok, I'm not so informed about crossplatform issues.
> I was also thining about looking at jiffies value and stop once
> it is startjiffy+2, but with NO_HZ introduction, are jiffies
> still incremented ?

There should always be at least once cpu tasked with incrementing
jiffies.  Lots of stuff would break if not :-)

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