netdev - Re: [RFC] NET_SCHED: restore HZ value to /proc/net/psched

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Message-Id: <20080627.195903.105671917.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:59:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] NET_SCHED: restore HZ value to /proc/net/psched

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:15:53 +0200

> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:36:08 +0200
> > Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >> - add a new proc file to get the value of kernel HZ (the
> >>    fix needs a kernel change anyway, this would additionally
> >>    require a new iproute version).
> > 
> > Don't like this might encourage new bad ABI's.
> 
> Me neither, it was just an ugly alternative to the API
> change, but on second though I'm even more convinced
> that the metrics should be fixed.

I just read over this thread and the my conclusion is the
same as Patrick's, let's fix the metrics.

I'm therefore dropping the RFC patch that started this discussion.
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