On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, David S. Miller wrote: > I'd love to have a run-time tuneable kernel parameter that lets me use > do_gettimeofday() instead of get_fast_time for received packet > timestamping. Does this seem reasonable? > > Can you demonstrate a difference in accurace between these two > routines on any architecture :-) The discreprency is that get_fast_time() returns the current value of xtime, while do_gettimeofday() may actually calculate the time and consider both xtime and the jiffies. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
