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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Cheng Jin <chengjin@cs.caltech.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>,
	"Xiaoliang (David) Wei" <weixl@caltech.edu>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	Cheng Hu <chenghu@cs.caltech.edu>,
	Steven Low <slow@cs.caltech.edu>,
	"netdev@oss.sgi.com" <netdev@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: packet re-ordering on SMP machines.
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 19:33:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020827193303.B4971@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L0.0208271011040.27776-100000@orchestra.cs.caltech.edu>


On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:22:13AM -0700, Cheng Jin wrote:
> Hi, Andi,
> 
> > Quick fix is to just use gettimeoffset in netif_rx again. Should
> > be fine for you.
> 
> There doesn't appear to be a function called gettimeoffset in 2.4.18
> anymore.  The closest I found was do_fast_gettimeoffset in
> "arch/i386/kernel/time.c"  This appears to be the unlocked version that

Yes, I mean do_fast_gettimeoffset.
> you are referring to, except I can't tell why the higher 32 bits (edx) of
> the timestamp isn't used.  (maybe the asm code takes care of it, but it seems
> that the result is stored in edx so)

32bit precision are probably enough for this.

> 
> What you said about a light-weight gettime function makes sense.  For our
> purpose of timing RTTs, any gettime function with a resolution higher than
> 1 ms will probably be enough.  The time doesn't need to be in exactly in sync
> with the one obtained from the locking version of the gettime function.

TSC should be fine then.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-27 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.GSO.4.30.0208251149320.29461-100000@shell.cyberus.ca>
2002-08-25 18:32 ` packet re-ordering on SMP machines Ben Greear
2002-08-26  0:52   ` jamal
2002-08-26  4:34     ` Ben Greear
2002-08-26 11:20       ` jamal
2002-08-26 23:03       ` Xiaoliang (David) Wei
2002-08-26 23:20         ` Ben Greear
2002-08-27 10:59         ` jamal
2002-08-27 11:12           ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-27 12:05             ` jamal
2002-08-27 12:20               ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-27 13:06                 ` kuznet
2002-08-27 13:13                   ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-27 13:24                     ` kuznet
2002-09-15  8:42                     ` Harald Welte
2002-09-15 21:55                       ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2002-08-27 17:22                 ` Cheng Jin
2002-08-27 17:33                   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-08-27 19:43               ` Xiaoliang (David) Wei
2002-08-25 15:56 jamal

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