netdev - Re: [PATCH] iputils ping,ping6: use monotonic clock to schedule pings

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1009210838090.27317@red.crap.retrofitta.se>
Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:50:57 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Habets <thomas@...ets.pp.se>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
cc:	Thomas Habets <thomas@...ets.pp.se>,
	Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@...puter.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iputils ping,ping6: use monotonic clock to schedule
 pings

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki wrote:
> Why don't we convert most (if not all) gettimeofday(), then?

I wanted to initially just solve the easy part in case it wouldn't be 
accepted.

The latency measuring parts are more complicated because they're not 
always gettimeofday() but SO_TIMESTAMP or SIOCGSTAMP with just a fallback 
to gettimeofday(). I can dig deeper next week.

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