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From: Jason Uhlenkott <jasonuhl@sgi.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME woes
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:33:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050822203306.GA897956@dragonfly.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050822.132052.65406121.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 01:20:52PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: tony.luck@intel.com
> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:42:22 -0700
> 
> > At the other extreme ... the current use of sched_clock() with
> > potentially nano-second resolution is way over the top.
> 
> Not really, when I'm debugging TCP events over gigabit
> these timestamps are exceptionally handy.

Yes, but how many of those figures are really significant?  I strongly
suspect that the overhead of printk() is high enough, even when we're
just spewing to the dmesg buffer and not the console, that we have a
lot more precision than accuracy at nanosecond resolution.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-22 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-18 18:47 Luck, Tony
2005-08-21  9:13 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-21  9:16   ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-21  9:27     ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-21  9:32       ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-21 11:25         ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-21 18:01           ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-24  0:04             ` Tim Bird
2005-08-22 17:42     ` tony.luck
2005-08-22 17:50       ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-22 20:52         ` tony.luck
2005-08-22 20:20       ` David S. Miller
2005-08-22 20:33         ` Jason Uhlenkott [this message]
2005-08-22 20:42           ` David S. Miller
2005-08-22 21:10             ` tony.luck
2005-08-22 21:15             ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-22 22:33               ` tony.luck
2005-08-22 22:38                 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-22 23:27                   ` tony.luck
2005-08-23  1:52                     ` Paul Mackerras
2005-08-23 15:01             ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-24  0:36     ` Tim Bird
2005-08-23  7:18   ` Tony Lindgren
2005-08-23 14:07 Luck, Tony

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