netdev - Re: [PATCH] eql: dont rely on HZ=100

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Message-Id: <20120327.224727.30292313009301823.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:47:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	dwmw2@...radead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eql: dont rely on HZ=100

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:52:00 -0700

> [PATCH] eql: dont rely on HZ=100
> 
> HZ is more likely to be 1000 these days.
> 
> timer handlers are run from softirq, no need to disable bh
> 
> skb priority 1 is TC_PRIO_FILLER
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied.

Strange we export this EQL_DEFAULT_RESCHED_IVAL to userspace, where
HZ will take on a different value I think, something akin to USER_HZ.

Anyways, that's a different unrelated problem to the bug you're
fixing.
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