6-STABLE: HZ>1000, RFC1323 non-compliance, and PF

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Fri Dec 16 14:26:19 PST 2005


On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Alan Amesbury wrote:

> Because we have several systems equipped with em(4)-compatible cards
> that are intended to accept traffic at gigabit speeds, I've configured
> them with HZ=2000, per the notes above.  However, 6-STABLE has also
> included some newer pf(4) code, which is fundamentally incompatible with
> a HZ setting this high.  I did some digging and eventually came up with
> this PR:
>
>    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/61404

I'll throw it on my to-do list, hopefully I'll get to it over the next few 
weeks.

I'm going to fix it a bit differently than that patch does, though.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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