[ovs-dev] [PATCH] timeval: Use monotonic time where appropriate.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Wed Jun 9 01:42:24 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:22:54PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> >> > Most of the timekeeping needs of OVS are simply to measure intervals,
> >> > which means that it is sensitive to changes in the clock.  This commit
> >> > replaces the existing clocks with monotonic timers.  An additional set
> >> > of wall clock timers are added and used in locations that need
> absolute
> >> > time.
> >>[comments]
> >[responses]
>
> All of that sounds good to me, Jesse.  Thanks for all the details
>

Thanks for the comments - signals and time are such a pain to reason about.
 I pushed this out.
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