Linux Ethernet Bridging - Nov 2010 - [Bridge] STP timer active even when STP is disabled

Hi all,

I am facing some latency issues, mainly due to timer issues.
I have looked at the timer stats and I can see several timers coming
from the bridge.

In fact, I do not understand this piece of code :
In net/bridge/br_if.c in function new_bridge_dev there is an
unconditionnal call to br_stp_timer_init().

In my use case, I do not have STP enabled. Why do we have these timers
activated ? Is this a normal behaviour ?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Best Regards,
JM