Subject: Re: [PATCH] Customizable TCP backoff patch

From: Ingo Oeser <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 10:56:12 +0200

David Miller wrote:
> At the very least, seconds might not be fine enough granularity
> for some circumstances.  Heck, the default RTO_MIN is 1/5 of a
> second. :-)
> 
> I also understand that going to milliseconds or microseconds would
> make the size of the in-socket struct members an issue again.  These
> things are never easy are they? :-/

Would be, if floating point values would be allowed. Single precision would 
be enough in this case and its just 32 bits IIRC.

I mean floating point values just for the user->kernel ABI and 
NOT for the internal timer representation.

Regards

Ingo Oeser