Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:29:47 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Fire Engine?? |
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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:13:52 -0800 "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> 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?
The behaviour is not really changed, just the precision of the timestamp is temporarily (a few tens of ms on a busy network) worse.
And the jitter in this timestamp is already higher than this when you consider queueing delays and interrupt mitigation in the driver.
-Andi
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