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| author |   Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-09-02 14:37:45 -0700 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-09-02 14:37:45 -0700 |
| commit | 5848cc096a23b80b3d15c27d72299f79caf7c517 (patch) | |
| tree | f43257578c3e5fc248903544c430294d914287a7 /include/net/rtnetlink.h | |
| parent | Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 (diff) | |
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net: drop_monitor: make last_rx timestamp private
It was recently pointed out to me that the last_rx field of the
net_device structure wasn't updated regularly. In fact only the
bonding driver really uses it currently. Since the drop_monitor code
relies on the last_rx field to detect drops on recevie in hardware, We
need to find a more reliable way to rate limit our drop checks (so
that we don't check for drops on every frame recevied, which would be
inefficient. This patch makes a last_rx timestamp that is private to
the drop monitor code and is updated for every device that we track.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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