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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 22:18:17 +0200
From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To: Chad Reese <kreese@...ium.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
Chad Reese <kreese@...iumnetworks.com>,
David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/8] net-timestamp: explicit SO_TIMESTAMPING
ancillary data struct
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:44:44PM -0700, Chad Reese wrote:
>
> For Octeon, you can optionally use the hardware timestamp as the
> system clock reference. Most people don't, but it is the only way to
> get the system time to be accurate. 1588 can synchronize two Octeon
> boards to less than 1ns for the hardware timer. The Linux software
> timers is always farther off.
Did you mean 1us ?
Thanks,
Richard
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