Re: Fire Engine??

[Ben Greear]

David S. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:56:41 +0100
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:36:20 -0800
> > "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I don't think this is acceptable.  It's important that all
> > > of the timestamps are as accurate as they were before.
> >
> > I disagree on that. The window is small and slowing down 99.99999% of all 
> > users who never care about this for this extremely obscure
> > misdesigned API does not make  much sense to me.
>
>
> We can't change behavior like this.  Every time we've tried to
> do it, we've been burnt.  Remember nonlocal-bind?

I'll try to write up a patch that uses the TSC and lazy conversion
to timeval as soon as I get the rx-all and rx-fcs code happily
into the kernel....

Assuming TSC is very fast and the conversion is accurate enough, I think
this can give good results....

Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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