Merge branch 'net_sched-allow-use-of-hrtimer-slack'
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 18 Mar 2020 04:16:35 +0000 (21:16 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 18 Mar 2020 04:16:35 +0000 (21:16 -0700)
commitc7cba8326c1eba1f49f39a71cd9ef03a03a80da4
treead0758e5b63398640aa6eb986b9d3e524682d800
parent24ee86511b01f73a1ef1dd8a8a2e685e5ec03bfe
parent583396f4ca4d6ee5ad314ba0f4cb5b89deb75e76
Merge branch 'net_sched-allow-use-of-hrtimer-slack'

Eric Dumazet says:

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net_sched: allow use of hrtimer slack

Packet schedulers have used hrtimers with exact expiry times.

Some of them can afford having a slack, in order to reduce
the number of timer interrupts and feed bigger batches
to increase efficiency.

FQ for example does not care if throttled packets are
sent with an additional (small) delay.

Original observation of having maybe too many interrupts
was made by Willem de Bruijn.

v2: added strict netlink checking (Jakub Kicinski)
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>