[PATCH net-next v4 8/8] forcedeth: stats updated with a deferrable timer
From: David Decotigny <hidden>
Date: 2011-11-15 19:27:58
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forcedeth gigabit ethernet driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Rain River, Zhu Yanjun, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Mark stats timer as deferrable: punctuality in waking the stats timer callback doesn't matter much, as it is responsible only to avoid integer wraparound. We need at least 1 other timer to fire within 17s (fully loaded 1Gbps) to avoid wrap-arounds. Desired period is still 10s. Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <redacted> --- drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
index 7284f40..b5c85de 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c@@ -5538,7 +5538,7 @@ static int __devinit nv_probe(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, const struct pci_device_i init_timer(&np->nic_poll); np->nic_poll.data = (unsigned long) dev; np->nic_poll.function = nv_do_nic_poll; /* timer handler */ - init_timer(&np->stats_poll); + init_timer_deferrable(&np->stats_poll); np->stats_poll.data = (unsigned long) dev; np->stats_poll.function = nv_do_stats_poll; /* timer handler */
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