ipv4: fix sysctl documentation of time related values

These sysctl values are time related and all use the same routine
(proc_dointvec_jiffies) that internally converts from seconds to jiffies.
The code is fine, the documentation is just wrong.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 17a6e46fbd43..17f1f91af35c 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -81,23 +81,23 @@ inet_peer_minttl - INTEGER
         Minimum time-to-live of entries.  Should be enough to cover fragment
         time-to-live on the reassembling side.  This minimum time-to-live  is
         guaranteed if the pool size is less than inet_peer_threshold.
-        Measured in jiffies(1).
+        Measured in seconds.
 
 inet_peer_maxttl - INTEGER
         Maximum time-to-live of entries.  Unused entries will expire after
         this period of time if there is no memory pressure on the pool (i.e.
         when the number of entries in the pool is very small).
-        Measured in jiffies(1).
+        Measured in seconds.
 
 inet_peer_gc_mintime - INTEGER
         Minimum interval between garbage collection passes.  This interval is
         in effect under high memory pressure on the pool.
-        Measured in jiffies(1).
+        Measured in seconds.
 
 inet_peer_gc_maxtime - INTEGER
         Minimum interval between garbage collection passes.  This interval is
         in effect under low (or absent) memory pressure on the pool.
-        Measured in jiffies(1).
+        Measured in seconds.
 
 TCP variables: 
 
@@ -794,10 +794,6 @@ tag - INTEGER
         Allows you to write a number, which can be used as required.
         Default value is 0.
 
-(1) Jiffie: internal timeunit for the kernel. On the i386 1/100s, on the
-Alpha 1/1024s. See the HZ define in /usr/include/asm/param.h for the exact
-value on your system. 
-
 Alexey Kuznetsov.
 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru