The api in netlink should be in milliseconds rather than compensating
in the application (iproute2).
My understanding of the in-kernel rtnetlink code is far from complete,
but it doesn't seem to have much in the way of provisions for unit
conversion, which would suggest no nice suffix-based ui as in tc, and ip
is already doing some massaging of units on the display side for a
couple of the other parameters, so I'm at something of a loss.
So, I used the source and looked and saw that tc seems to convert
everything to nanoseconds and passes that to the kernel. The user can
give it seconds, milliseconds, microseconds or nanoseconds by using a
suffix. It then does something ostensibly intelligent to display those
to the user.
Ip converts nothing when passing things to the kernel (rtt rttvar or rto
- when/if at least the intial rto changes are included - were they?),
but when they come-out of the kernel ip converts them to milliseconds.
So the units in != the units out.
Tc seems much more friendly and less prone to user error.
I'm still not sure how "easily" rtnetlink can do conversions itself -
feedback there would be _very_ welcome - but at the very least, having
ip provide at least the illusion of what tc does would seem to be a good
thing.
rick jones
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