Venki Pallipadi wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:42:32PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> >>It seems wasteful to add per-packet overhead for tx timeouts, which >>should be an exception. Do drivers really care about the exact >>timeout value? Compared to a packet transmission time its incredibly >>long anyways .. > > > I agree. Doing a mod_timer or hrtimer_forward to push forward may add to the > complexity depending on how often TX happens. > > Are the drivers really worried about exact timeouts here?
Just guessing, but I don't think they are, after all timers can be late. > Can we use rounding for the timers that are more than a second, at least? Also sounds reasonable. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
