This timer normally happens once a minute, there is no need to cause an early wakeup for it, so align it to next second boundary to safe power. It can't be deferred because then it could take too long on cleanup or DoS. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c 2008-07-21 12:06:44.000000000 -0700 +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c 2008-07-21 12:07:41.000000000 -0700 @@ -1462,8 +1462,9 @@ void fib6_run_gc(unsigned long expires, fib6_clean_all(net, fib6_age, 0, NULL); if (gc_args.more) - mod_timer(&net->ipv6.ip6_fib_timer, jiffies + - net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_interval); + mod_timer(&net->ipv6.ip6_fib_timer, + round_jiffies(jiffies + + net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_gc_interval)); else del_timer(&net->ipv6.ip6_fib_timer); spin_unlock_bh(&fib6_gc_lock); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html