Re: [PATCH] Avoid gettimeofday when not needed
From: Andi Kleen <hidden>
Date: 2004-03-31 13:54:49
From: Andi Kleen <hidden>
Date: 2004-03-31 13:54:49
I suspect this breaks proxy arp/ndisc! The arp/ndisc requests are queued up for a random time before being processed by the proxy. Check out pneigh_enqueue() in net/core/neighbour.c for details. The skb->stamp.tv_sec check was used to separate the locally re-fed requests from ones received from the net.
Ok, thanks for clarifying this. I guessed the intention wrong then. A better way may be to just add a new skb flag for this that is managed by the arp code? Comments? -Andi