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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Speeding up snoopy(8)
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:04:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <106C8B7544ED8BDF80597DD9B0DA7A72@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3707ae90-8a68-4eec-bb3e-b67ee5841182@app.fastmail.com>

Quoth David Arroyo <droyo@aqwari.net>:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022, at 12:03, Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir wrote:
> > It would be nice to have a way to get monotonic timestamps in userspace
> > without having to go into the kernel. For now, you can try nanosec and
> > see if anything changes.
> 
> I tried using nanosec, and that was sufficient for snoopy to keep up
> with a bit rate of 1.6 Gbps, with no overflows. Thank you for the tip!
> 
> David

...should we replace the nsec() function with it?

we may be able to stash nsec (and monotonic nsec?) at last
context switch into tos, and interpolate using cycles.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-21 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-18  4:57 droyo
2022-10-20 15:55 ` David Arroyo
2022-10-20 16:03   ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2022-10-21 15:38     ` David Arroyo
2022-10-21 16:04       ` ori [this message]
2022-10-21 16:54         ` David Arroyo
2022-10-21 17:10           ` ori
2022-10-21 17:40       ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2022-10-21 18:52         ` ori
2022-10-21 19:23           ` ori

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