From: Arjan van de Ven Use the round_jiffies() function in e1000. These timers all were of the "about once a second" or "about once every X seconds" variety and several showed up in the "what wakes the cpu up" profiles that the tickless patches provide. Some timers are highly dynamic based on network load; but even on low activity systems they still show up so the rounding is done only in cases of low activity, allowing higher frequency timers in the high activity case. The various hardware watchdogs are an obvious case; they run every 2 seconds but aren't otherwise specific of exactly when they need to run. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Auke Kok Cc: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c~user-of-the-jiffies-rounding-code-e1000 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c --- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c~user-of-the-jiffies-rounding-code-e1000 +++ a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c @@ -2652,7 +2652,7 @@ e1000_watchdog(unsigned long data) netif_carrier_on(netdev); netif_wake_queue(netdev); - mod_timer(&adapter->phy_info_timer, jiffies + 2 * HZ); + mod_timer(&adapter->phy_info_timer, round_jiffies(jiffies + 2 * HZ)); adapter->smartspeed = 0; } else { /* make sure the receive unit is started */ @@ -2669,7 +2669,7 @@ e1000_watchdog(unsigned long data) DPRINTK(LINK, INFO, "NIC Link is Down\n"); netif_carrier_off(netdev); netif_stop_queue(netdev); - mod_timer(&adapter->phy_info_timer, jiffies + 2 * HZ); + mod_timer(&adapter->phy_info_timer, round_jiffies(jiffies + 2 * HZ)); /* 80003ES2LAN workaround-- * For packet buffer work-around on link down event; @@ -2721,7 +2721,7 @@ e1000_watchdog(unsigned long data) e1000_rar_set(&adapter->hw, adapter->hw.mac_addr, 0); /* Reset the timer */ - mod_timer(&adapter->watchdog_timer, jiffies + 2 * HZ); + mod_timer(&adapter->watchdog_timer, round_jiffies(jiffies + 2 * HZ)); } enum latency_range { _