On Wed, 2017-11-08 at 13:09 -0800, Dave Taht wrote: > netem userspace has long relied on a horrible /proc/net/psched hack > to translate the current notion of "ticks" to nanoseconds. > > Expressing latency and jitter instead, in well defined nanoseconds, > increases the dynamic range of emulated delays and jitter in netem. > > It will also ease a transition where reducing a tick to nsec > equivalence would constrain the max delay in prior versions of > netem to only 4.3 seconds. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Taht <[email protected]> > ---
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
