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Subject: Re: Timing issue with Dummynet on high kernel timer interrupt
To: Rasool Al-Saadi <ralsaadi@swin.edu.au>,
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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 14:33:41 +0100
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On 11/03/15 14:14, Rasool Al-Saadi wrote:
> Does anyone have thoughts on what we can test next to narrow down the root-cause of these unusual timing jumps?

You might also want to test the "projects/hps_head" branch, which uses a 
bit different callout implementation.

--HPS