[PATCH net-next v2 09/10] forcedeth: stats updated with a deferrable timer

From: David Decotigny
Date: Thu Nov 10 2011 - 20:41:02 EST


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 <david.decotigny@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 7813c37..3617ba3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
@@ -5377,7 +5377,7 @@ 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 */

--
1.7.3.1

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