linux-kernel - Re: loaded router, excessive getnstimeofday in oprofile

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Message-Id: <20080831.211005.22750451.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:10:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	rick.jones2@...com, jmalicki@...acarta.com, andi@...stfloor.org,
	johnpol@....mipt.ru, dada1@...mosbay.com, denys@...p.net.lb,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	juhlenko@...mai.com, sammy@...my.net
Subject: Re: loaded router, excessive getnstimeofday in oprofile

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:08:14 -0400

> Quite frankly, unless somebody *IS* planning to become an expert on how the
> IT stuff for them are designed and run, we *should not* be doing any code
> changes that we don't understand, just because they say so and we should
> trust them...

Exactly!  We should not change where and how packet timestamps are
taken!  Thanks!

It is what I have been advocating this whole thread :-)
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