Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: remove NET_LL_RX_POLL config menue

On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:12:05 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Eliezer Tamir <redacted>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:24:28 +0300

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 	depends on X86_TSC

Wait a second, I didn't notice this before.  There needs to be a better
way to test for the accuracy you need, or if the issue is lack of a proper
API for cycle counter reading, fix that rather than add ugly arch
specific dependencies to generic networking code.

This should be sched_clock(), rather than direct TSC access.
Also any code using TSC or sched_clock has to be carefully audited to deal with
clocks running at different rates on different CPU's. Basically value is only
meaning full on same CPU.