Re: [net-next PATCH v2 5/8] net: Track start of busy loop instead of when it should end

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Mar 24 2017 - 00:38:41 EST


On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 21:27 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> If you believe min/max values should be added to the sysctls, because we
> do not trust root anymore, please send patches only addressing that.

extern unsigned int sysctl_net_busy_read;
extern unsigned int sysctl_net_busy_poll;
...
unsigned int sk_ll_usec;


These are unsigned values, so no min/max would be required, only
maybe use proc_douintvec() instead of proc_dointvec() as most sysctls
use because we were lazy and had to wait linux-4.8 to actually get
proc_douintvec() in the kernel ;)