| > The default value is set at compilation time when HZ is known. I used jiffies for the | > main reason to make this sysctl consistent with the other, similar, runtime variables | > which are also in units of jiffies (cf. Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt): | > | > * inet_peer_minttl / inet_peer_maxttl / inet_peer_gc_mintime / inet_peer_gc_maxtime | | Actually these are in seconds, they use proc_dointvec_jiffies, which | takes seconds and converts to jiffies. I haven't looked at the code - it may be that the information in ip-sysctl.txt is outdated. <snip> | I agree with Ian that userspace interfaces should use fixed units that | don't depend on compile-time options. | Ok, will convert patch & Documentation to use milliseconds, and send an update later. Thank you for the input. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dccp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
