From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:30:52 -0800 > From: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This patch introduces users of the round_jiffies() function in the networking > code. > > These timers all were of the "about once a second" or "about once every X > seconds" variety and several showed up in the "what wakes the cpu up" profiles > that the tickless patches provide. Some timers are highly dynamic based on > network load; but even on low activity systems they still show up so the > rounding is done only in cases of low activity, allowing higher frequency > timers in the high activity case. > > The various hardware watchdogs are an obvious case; they run every 2 seconds > but aren't otherwise specific of exactly when they need to run. > > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I pulled in everything except the e1000 driver change, Jeff please suck that in, thanks. Arjan, btw: > + if (dst_gc_timer_expires > 4*HZ) > + mod_timer(&dst_gc_timer, > + round_jiffies(jiffies + dst_gc_timer_expires)); > + else > + mod_timer(&dst_gc_timer, jiffies + dst_gc_timer_expires); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That line begins "TAB SPACE TAB", and lo' and behold GIT catch this when I applied it :-) I fixed it up by hand and reapplied, so don't worry about this instance. - 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
