X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?p=iproute2.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=tc%2FREADME.last;fp=tc%2FREADME.last;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hp=9400438a1d86884ad4ae350771221ef67a8c1b4a;hb=3331a68859fd71047bb1f309048960b48eab2d83;hpb=2bd4a72f2100be7ad7d9518cb1d49bb2a5b71994 diff --git a/tc/README.last b/tc/README.last deleted file mode 100644 index 9400438..0000000 --- a/tc/README.last +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ -Kernel code and interface. --------------------------- - -* Compile time switches - -There is only one, but very important, compile time switch. -It is not settable by "make config", but should be selected -manually and after a bit of thinking in - -PSCHED_CLOCK_SOURCE can take three values: - - PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY - PSCHED_JIFFIES - PSCHED_CPU - - - PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY - -Default setting is the most conservative PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY. -It is very slow both because of weird slowness of do_gettimeofday() -and because it forces code to use unnatural "timeval" format, -where microseconds and seconds fields are separate. -Besides that, it will misbehave, when delays exceed 2 seconds -(f.e. very slow links or classes bounded to small slice of bandwidth) -To resume: as only you will get it working, select correct clock -source and forget about PSCHED_GETTIMEOFDAY forever. - - - PSCHED_JIFFIES - -Clock is derived from jiffies. On architectures with HZ=100 -granularity of this clock is not enough to make reasonable -bindings to real time. However, taking into account Linux -architecture problems, which force us to use artificial -integrated clock in any case, this switch is not so bad -for schduling even on high speed networks, though policing -is not reliable. - - - PSCHED_CPU - -It is available only for alpha and pentiums with correct -CPU timestamp. It is the fastest way, use it when it is available, -but remember: not all pentiums have this facility, and -a lot of them have clock, broken by APM etc. etc. - -