Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 May 2007 16:02:02 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] Make net watchdog timers 1 sec jiffy aligned | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:36:12 -0500
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 03:29:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> > > Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:10:39 -0500 > > > > > Are you agreeing that "it seems wasteful to add per-packet overhead"? > > > This patch is not doing that. > > > > Yes, and I know that :-) > > Is there a real reason for watchdog_timeo to be all over the map?
In theory it's a hardware implementation and link speed specific value, in reality nearly everyone just copies values from other drivers.
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