Re: pktgen patch available for perusal.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

Robert Olsson wrote:
> Ben Greear writes:
>  > I've completed the first pass of my changes to pktgen in 2.6.18.
>  > Many of these features are probably DOA based on previous conversations,
>  > but perhaps this will help someone....
> 
>  Thanks. Well sometimes there is a need to capture and drop pkts and various 
>  points, so it handy to have code fragments ready and just add the hook when 
>  it's needed in driver or rx softirq etc.

I'd be thrilled to have the receive logic go into pktgen, even if it was #if 0 with a comment
showing how to patch dev.c to get it working.  It would make my out-of-tree patch smaller
and should help others who are doing research and driver development...

If you'd accept a patch like this, please let me know.

>  > Changes:
>  > * use a nano-second timer based on the scheduler timer (TSC) for relative times, instead of get_time_of_day.
> 
>  Any chance you extract this one so we can compare with get_time_of_day. This pops up
>  in the profiles and TX numbers are not what used to be.

I'll work on that.

Thanks,
Ben

> 
>  Cheers.
> 					--ro
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