On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:49:10AM -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
No, moving the time stamps into the socket decreases latency
for all packets that don't need time stamps. And they likely
have some packets which don't need time stamps too.
As a secondary effect if they use a RT kernel it might
be also beneficial to do the (depending on the platform)
costly time stamp in the lower priority socket context
than in the high priority interrupt thread.
-Andi
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