From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:07:58 -0700
> I wonder whether designing-in a millisecond granularity is the right thing > to do. If in a few years the kernel is running tickless with high-res clock > interrupt sources, that might look a bit lumpy. > > Switching it to a __u64 nanosecond counter would be basically free on > 64-bit machines, and not very expensive on 32-bit, no? If it ends up in a structure we'll need to use the "aligned_u64" type in order to avoid problems with 32-bit x86 binaries running on 64-bit kernels. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
