Re: gettime: Was (Re: Route cache performance under stress

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:54:53AM -0400, Jamal Hadi wrote:

Ok, time to go into another separate thread ;->

Sounds like a good idea.

if (skbneedstimestamp)
	do_gettimeofday(&skb->stamp);
else
	defertimestamp()

Another way is to just store jiffies (= 10 or 1ms accuracy) 

This should be nearly zero cost and accurate enough at least for TCP.

-Andi