* Varun Chandramohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-08-21 16:52 > I know its a bit confusing but let me explain the reason. In my first > version patch i used fn_hash_insert() (place where alias is created)as > place to insert my current time in the age field. > This will eventually call fib_dump_info() for inserting the age filed > attribute into the skb. Now in both places i have to call > do_gettimeofday(). Its obvious that i need it in fn_hash_insert(), its > also need in fib_dump_info() as it is the same function called for > retrieving and dumping the age value to the userspace. So as you are > aware that before we dump it to userspace we need to subtract the value > with current time i need to call do_gettimeofday() twice. To avoid this > i did as above.
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