• YOSHIFUJI Hideaki's avatar
    ipv6: Reduce timer events for addrconf_verify(). · b2db7564
    YOSHIFUJI Hideaki authored
    This patch reduces timer events while keeping accuracy by rounding
    our timer and/or batching several address validations in addrconf_verify().
    
    addrconf_verify() is called at earliest timeout among interface addresses'
    timeouts, but at maximum ADDR_CHECK_FREQUENCY (120 secs).
    
    In most cases, all of timeouts of interface addresses are long enough
    (e.g. several hours or days vs 2 minutes), this timer is usually called
    every ADDR_CHECK_FREQUENCY, and it is okay to be lazy.
    (Note this timer could be eliminated if all code paths which modifies
    variables related to timeouts call us manually, but it is another story.)
    
    However, in other least but important cases, we try keeping accuracy.
    
    When the real interface address timeout is coming, and the timeout
    is just before the rounded timeout, we accept some error.
    
    When a timeout has been reached, we also try batching other several
    events in very near future.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    b2db7564
addrconf.c 111 KB