Re: [PATCH v2] sctp: avoid refreshing heartbeat timer too often

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 15:15:19 -0300 > Currently on high rate SCTP streams the heartbeat timer refresh can > consume quite a lot of resources as timer updates are costly and it > contains a random factor, which a) is also costly and b)

[PATCH v2] sctp: avoid refreshing heartbeat timer too often

Currently on high rate SCTP streams the heartbeat timer refresh can consume quite a lot of resources as timer updates are costly and it contains a random factor, which a) is also costly and b) invalidates mod_timer() optimization for not editing a timer to the same value. It may even cause the