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Re: [PATCH] New version of net timestamp optimization

To: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New version of net timestamp optimization
From: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:46:38 -0700
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Andi Kleen wrote:
On 07 Apr 2004 08:24:19 -0400
jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The patch does look clean and attractive. I havent had time toi play
with it myself - but given the way gettimeofday has been torturing me
i will at some point. Also if you have time a 2.4.x patch would be


Thanks. All feedback I received so far was positive. I hope DaveM will
merge it soon. I don't have plans to work on 2.4 anymore.

I finally got around to working with 2.6, and I ran into the new timestamp code. I would like to be able to have timestamps even though I do not have a socket structure (I am using a kernel module to grab all frames)...

How would you feel about either exporting the netstamp_needed variable
or offering a method that explicitly incremented or decremented the
use count?

Thanks,
Ben


-Andi



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