Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:41:52 -0800 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: Fire Engine?? |
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David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:56:41 +0100 > Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > > >>On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:36:20 -0800 >>"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> 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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