From: "David Arroyo" <droyo@aqwari.net>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Speeding up snoopy(8)
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:54:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a2a70ea-388f-4b2f-bb9a-f401e2dc1934@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <106C8B7544ED8BDF80597DD9B0DA7A72@eigenstate.org>
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022, at 12:04, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
> 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!
>
> ...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.
I don't fully understand the tradeoffs in using nanosec() over nsec().
For packet captures, I specifically *don't* want time adjustments during
a capture, so nanosec() being monotonic is a plus.
It doesn't matter for snoopy currently, but is nanosec() thread-safe?
It's keeping xstart in a static variable; would different threads have
different xstarts, or could they step on each other if they call
nanosec() at the same time?
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-21 16:56 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
2022-10-21 16:54 ` David Arroyo [this message]
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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