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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)
commitfa7840ef7cdec086240c4975dc5c3f88209a4810
treead0758e5b63398640aa6eb986b9d3e524682d800
parentdd94419cb691f0c3367cbded1be3b1f09dd9ec54
parenta2acc313bd9973ca2303a647e0c6e77888269ad6
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>