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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:58:03 +0000
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From: Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] sleep(2) historical question
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RTT computation isn't the problem. you're going to use a multicore
numa 64-bit processor to clock edges into a simple device register at
microsecond resolution without any attempt at timeliness? seriously?

On 28 November 2012 19:38, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> RTT
> computation as Erik pointed out.  If you want to minimize
> latency in usermode drivers and deal with simple(r) hardware.