|  > The default value is set at compilation time when HZ is known. I used 
jiffies for the
|  > main reason to make this sysctl consistent with the other, similar, 
runtime variables
|  > which are also in units of jiffies (cf. 
Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt):
|  > 
|  >  * inet_peer_minttl / inet_peer_maxttl / inet_peer_gc_mintime / 
inet_peer_gc_maxtime
|  
|  Actually these are in seconds, they use proc_dointvec_jiffies, which
|  takes seconds and converts to jiffies.
I haven't looked at the code - it may be that the information in ip-sysctl.txt 
is outdated.
  
<snip>
|  I agree with Ian that userspace interfaces should use fixed units that
|  don't depend on compile-time options.
|  
Ok,  will convert patch & Documentation to use milliseconds, and send an update 
later.

Thank you for the input.
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