Hello! > Unfortunately gettimeofday at least on i386 has a readlock. It would > add a new cache line bouncing bottleneck for every packet. Wow! Andi, what cache line? Do you know where to find an SMP 386 or 486? :-) It is not easy to find even UP one. :-) get_fast_time() is _identically_ do_getimeofday(). I think Dave is right, get_fast_time() must die. Actually, it should not be ever born. At least, my poor amber.inr.ac.ru used to have these bogus function replaced with true stamp anyway. Couple of IO ops did not affect performance comparing to lots of IO to ne2000 and right stamp is really critical to get something sensible from tcpdump. Alexey - : 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
