Re: [PATCH net-next] softirq: reduce latencies

Eric Dumazet
2013-01-04T06:53:31Z

On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 14:16 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

> Probably a silly question:
>
> Why not using ktime rather than jiffies for this?

ktime is too expensive on some hardware.

Here we only want a safety belt, no need for high time resolution.