Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Aug 1999 00:37:46 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: HZ ethernet question |
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On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Anton Ivanov wrote:
> Sorry for the dumb question:
Good analysis :)
> I have noticed in some of the drivers (f.e. hamachi.c) the following > definition: > #define TX_TIMEOUT (2*HZ) > Doesn't this evaluate to a different value on alpha?
Indeed it does. And it should. The timeout is supposed to be two *seconds* - this means the jiffies value on x86 is 200 and on AXP it's 2048, or more simply put: (2*HZ)
cheers,
Rik.
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