[OpenAFS-devel] .35 sec rx delay bug?

chas williams - CONTRACTOR chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:45:07 -0500


In message <454F56DA.8030003@pclella.cern.ch>,Rainer Toebbicke writes:
>(the patch is called ...AndClock since it also switches to using the 
>itimer interface which is faster than gettimeofday()). But it's 
>obvious how to revert that part if ever.

itimer is known to be buggy on certain systems.  irix in particular.
if using itimer is a significant performance gain, then perhaps 
gettimeofday() is being used too often.