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Date:      Sun, 14 Jul 2002 08:58:32 -0700
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        David Miller <dmiller@sparks.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: setsockopt() weirdness
Message-ID:  <20020714085832.C74633@iguana.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207141116090.13872-100000@search.sparks.net>; from dmiller@sparks.net on Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:49:46AM -0400
References:  <20020714075706.A74633@iguana.icir.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207141116090.13872-100000@search.sparks.net>

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On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:49:46AM -0400, David Miller wrote:
...
> HZ is set to 5000; the machine is intended to process several tens of
> thousands of very small packets per second, and interrupt processing was a
> big problem.

why don't you use "options DEVICE_POLLING" then :)

> Does this mean that if one left HZ alone at 100 that you could only set it
> for 320 seconds?  There's no warning of this in the manpage for
> setsockopt; I naturally assumed that one could set an unsigned long delay
> and that it would work.  Is this a bug, or just a feature I'm looking at
> sideways?

well it's obviously a bug, but we have been hit by this 2-3years ago with
nfs (in-kernel), so i thought the problem had been fixed at the time
by increasing the size of the relevant data structure.
Maybe it was not done everywhere...

> On a different note, how could I have discovered this without asking the
> hackers list?

bugs are bugs... so you can't expect to find them documented :)

	cheers
	luigi

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