Sorry for the repost Dave, I accidentally used the @oss.sgi.com address
in my previous posting.
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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]>
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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
