Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:20:47 -0700 (PDT)
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Build upon David Miller's initial patches to set the per-route rto_min
so users can specify the rto_min in the same units (milliseconds) in
which they are displayed. This is desirable because asking users to
convert to and from jiffies themselves, when there can be different
values of HZ from system to system would be error prone.
Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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The api in netlink should be in milliseconds rather than compensating
in the application (iproute2).
In unrelated work I found myself using tc to setup some WAN emulation.
There I noticed that one can specify times using a units suffix. So, one
can say 100ms, 100us, or 100s.
That seems like a nice, friendly interface. I've not looked yet to see
if it was converting up in tc and then passing a consistent unit to the
kernel, or if all the conversion was happening in the kernel.
rick jones
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