From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 30 15:32:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [208.139.222.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A061914C80 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:32:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA12921; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:31:23 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.8.5/8.6.4) id RAA26190; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:31:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19990830173120.30486@right.PCS> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:31:20 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Julian Elischer Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP References: <199908302127.OAA67008@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: ; from Julian Elischer on Aug 08, 1999 at 03:01:32PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Aug 08, 1999 at 03:01:32PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > I've just committed the revised TCP timer code. There are some > > > user visible changes: > > > > > > User visible TCP timers are now in units of the system clock > > > (10ms for the i386), not those of the slowtimeout (500ms). So > > > if you have customized one of these values, (e.g.: net.inet.tcp.keepintvl), > > > you'll need to multiply it appropriately to keep the same interval. > > I don't want to sound ungrateful, but couldn't we have defined these in > terms of Usecs and translated? > I mean I sometimes compile hz to be 1000 for some reasons.. > this means that I have to reset all these values in my rc scripts. > > As an example the kern.quantum variable that will always be the same > despite a redefinition of Hz. It's stored internally in terms of Hz but > exported in uSecs. Okay, I'll work on this, and should have a patch by tomorrow (unless somone beats to me it). I think that having it in units of usec is probably better than msec; it provides more in the way of "forward compatability", and allows for a larger HZ. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message