From: Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 10:56:12 +0200
> David Miller wrote: > > At the very least, seconds might not be fine enough granularity > > for some circumstances. Heck, the default RTO_MIN is 1/5 of a > > second. :-) > > > > I also understand that going to milliseconds or microseconds would > > make the size of the in-socket struct members an issue again. These > > things are never easy are they? :-/ > > Would be, if floating point values would be allowed. Single precision would > be enough in this case and its just 32 bits IIRC. > > I mean floating point values just for the user->kernel ABI and > NOT for the internal timer representation. We got the struct members down to 16-bits each, the problem is in fact that we'd need to make them 32-bits again. - 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
