netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/5] ipv6: use round

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Message-Id: <20080722.143415.79214850.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:34:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] ipv6: use round_jiffies

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:29:29 -0700

> 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 <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied.
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