Sorry for the repost Dave, I accidentally used the @oss.sgi.com address in my previous posting.
--------- It seems to be a common mistake to use jiffies as clocksource, which gives very bad results in most cases. This patch changes the default to gettimeofday.
[PKT_SCHED]: Change default clock source to gettimeofday The default of using jiffies is very bad and results in underutilization except with very low bandwidth. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 99b5071d1db625d970b0eb9403c0cd32ef0d1071 tree 5a1a5dc005b26e0cc78ba253c21ce7c9ff3cc65c parent e1109d524e3ddbe9e4a4704c829ef1c286a1e944 author Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:55:53 +0100 committer Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:55:53 +0100 net/sched/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sched/Kconfig b/net/sched/Kconfig index 8a260d4..778b1e5 100644 --- a/net/sched/Kconfig +++ b/net/sched/Kconfig @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ if NET_SCHED choice prompt "Packet scheduler clock source" - default NET_SCH_CLK_JIFFIES + default NET_SCH_CLK_GETTIMEOFDAY ---help--- Packet schedulers need a monotonic clock that increments at a static rate. The kernel provides several suitable interfaces, each with