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Date:      Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:38:52 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netgraph/netflow netflow.c
Message-ID:  <20050303173852.GC4737@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200503031101.j23B16Vn065793@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200503031101.j23B16Vn065793@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:01:06AM +0000, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> glebius     2005-03-03 11:01:06 UTC
>=20
>   FreeBSD src repository
>=20
>   Modified files:
>     sys/netgraph/netflow netflow.c=20
>   Log:
>   Cisco uses milliseconds for uptime. This is stupid. Nobody cares of such
>   precision when IP packet may travel through internet for several second=
s.
>   Also uptime measured in milliseconds overflows every 48+ days.
>   But we have to do same to keep compatibility with Cisco and flow-tools.
>  =20
>   Make a macro MILLIUPTIME, which does overflowable multiplication to 100=
0.

JFYI, I know of applications that care about even higher granularity.
For instance, I talked to one of the people from Panasas this fall who
would really like the kernel timer interface to be able to handle
sub-millisecond timeouts.  In their environment, at packet that has not
been acked in around 100 microseconds has been dropped!

-- Brooks

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