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Re: Changing system timer resolution


Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:40:36AM +0000, Nick Garnett wrote:
> 
> > They should work now. Any TCP/DHCP code that relies on times should be
> > using the timing facilities provided in the network or POSIX APIs( e.g.
> > select() nanosleep() etc.).
> 
> Excellent! My source tree is getting old and I hadn't realized this had been
> done.  Last time I looked at TCP stuff I think there was a hard-wired
> definition of HZ, and I thought that changing the tick period would break
> things.  At one point (a long time ago) I did have my system tick at 1ms for
> a while, but I wasn't doing any network stuff at the time.

I think the idea is that the stack can be presented with something that
looks like HZ == 100, but it actually isn't.

But looking closer, I'm not sure this has been fixed:
net/tcpip/current/src/ecos/timeout.c doesn't scale the number of ticks at
all.

Jifl
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