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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] Make net watchdog timers 1 sec jiffy aligned
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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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