From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next] tcp: switch rtt estimations to usec resolution Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:15:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20140224.191508.199622728478930062.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1393284682.2316.83.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> <20140224155130.4c286cca@samsung-9> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, ja@ssi.bg, ycheng@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ncardwell@google.com, brakmo@google.com To: stephen@networkplumber.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:48589 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752905AbaBYAPK (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:15:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20140224155130.4c286cca@samsung-9> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 15:51:30 -0800 > The original reason I kept ms resolution and added the flag was > that accessing high resolution time is expensive for systems where > TSC is not stable. Google may live in a world of SMP systems with > good X86 CPUs with working TSC, but other architectures and system > config's may have non-working TSC. +1