On Sat, 2016-12-03 at 16:12 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> Applied.
Thanks David.
I also have to get rid of the WRITE_ONCE() done in est_timer(), since it
does not work properly on 32bit kernels.
It will target net-next, since it is not a very serious problem.
From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 08:11:00 -0800
> From: Eric Dumazet
>
> Under heavy stress, timer used in estimators tend to slowly be delayed
> by a few jiffies, leading to inaccuracies.
>
> Lets remember what was the last scheduled jiffies so that we get more
> precise estimations,
From: Eric Dumazet
Under heavy stress, timer used in estimators tend to slowly be delayed
by a few jiffies, leading to inaccuracies.
Lets remember what was the last scheduled jiffies so that we get more
precise estimations, without having to add a multiply/divide in the loop
to account for the d
