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SubjectRe: [RFC] [Patch 7/8] statistics infrastructure - exploitation prerequisite
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> Anrd> - do_gettimeofday
> Anrd> potentially slow, reliable TOD clock, microsecond resolution
>
> Slow, not necessarily safe to call in IRQ context.

It's only slow if the platform can't do better. On good hardware it is
fast. And yes it is safe to call in IRQ context. Networking does
that all the time.

If the hardware doesn't have a good working timer for gettimeofday
then everything else will be also slow.

-Andi
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