From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: loaded router, excessive getnstimeofday in oprofile Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080831.211005.22750451.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20031.1220236756@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20080831.205145.225080276.davem@davemloft.net> <6720.1220242094@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rick.jones2@hp.com, jmalicki@metacarta.com, andi@firstfloor.org, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, dada1@cosmosbay.com, denys@visp.net.lb, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, juhlenko@akamai.com, sammy@sammy.net To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:46156 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752377AbYIAEKL (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 00:10:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <6720.1220242094@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:08:14 -0400 > Quite frankly, unless somebody *IS* planning to become an expert on how the > IT stuff for them are designed and run, we *should not* be doing any code > changes that we don't understand, just because they say so and we should > trust them... Exactly! We should not change where and how packet timestamps are taken! Thanks! It is what I have been advocating this whole thread :-)