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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 02:23:58 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Wilson Yeung <wilson@whack.org>
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Subject: Re: hires timestamps for netif_rx()
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:33:04PM -0800, Wilson Yeung wrote:
> I'd love to have a run-time tuneable kernel parameter that lets me use
> do_gettimeofday() instead of get_fast_time for received packet
> timestamping.  Does this seem reasonable?

Both functions should just access the TSC of your CPU and be equivalent. 

-Andi
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