Re: [PATCH net-next] softirq: reduce latencies

[Eric Dumazet]

On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 14:16 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:

> Probably a silly question:
> 
> Why not using ktime rather than jiffies for this?

ktime is too expensive on some hardware.

Here we only want a safety belt, no need for high time resolution.


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