On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 01:20:52PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:42:22 -0700
>
> > At the other extreme ... the current use of sched_clock() with
> > potentially nano-second resolution is way over the top.
>
> Not really, when I'm debugging TCP events over gigabit
> these timestamps are exceptionally handy.
Yes, but how many of those figures are really significant? I strongly
suspect that the overhead of printk() is high enough, even when we're
just spewing to the dmesg buffer and not the console, that we have a
lot more precision than accuracy at nanosecond resolution.
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