Comment by throwaway31131
7 months ago
And there's also this nuance from the article text,
"The secret here is the kernel will always round 3ms up to at least one whole tick, 10ms."
Interestingly, not covered in the FAQ.
7 months ago
And there's also this nuance from the article text,
"The secret here is the kernel will always round 3ms up to at least one whole tick, 10ms."
Interestingly, not covered in the FAQ.
If you account for signal propagation speed through copper and the unaccounted ACK, I think the timing actually works out about the same.