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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: loaded router, excessive getnstimeofday in oprofile
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:27:35 +0200
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> Those banks really want to crank down on latency - to the point they 
> start disabling interrupt coalescing.  I bet they'd toss anything out 
> they could to shave another microsecond.

This change would actually likely lower their latency.

-Andi