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Commit 77a538d5 authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by David S. Miller
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ipv4: fix sysctl documentation of time related values 



These sysctl values are time related and all use the same routine
(proc_dointvec_jiffies) that internally converts from seconds to jiffies.
The code is fine, the documentation is just wrong.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 2a64cc4b

Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt

+4 −8
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@@ -81,23 +81,23 @@ inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER 
	Minimum time-to-live of entries.  Should be enough to cover fragment

	time-to-live on the reassembling side.  This minimum time-to-live  is

	guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.

	Measured in jiffies(1).

	Measured in seconds.



inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER

	Maximum time-to-live of entries.  Unused entries will expire after

	this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.

	when the number of entries in the pool is very small).

	Measured in jiffies(1).

	Measured in seconds.



inet_peer_gc_mintime - INTEGER

	Minimum interval between garbage collection passes.  This interval is

	in effect under high memory pressure on the pool.

	Measured in jiffies(1).

	Measured in seconds.



inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER

	Minimum interval between garbage collection passes.  This interval is

	in effect under low (or absent) memory pressure on the pool.

	Measured in jiffies(1).

	Measured in seconds.



TCP variables:
@@ -794,10 +794,6 @@ tag - INTEGER 
	Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.

	Default value is 0.



(1) Jiffie: internal timeunit for the kernel. On the i386 1/100s, on the

Alpha 1/1024s. See the HZ define in /usr/include/asm/param.h for the exact

value on your system. 



Alexey Kuznetsov.

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru