Increasing the granularity of internal timers in Bird?

Gabriel gabriel at autistici.org
Tue Jun 6 16:52:16 CEST 2017


Il 2017-06-05 18:53 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen ha scritto:
> Hey
> 
> I have been looking at changing the internal timers in Bird to operate
> at millisecond granularity instead of the current one-second steps. I
> have two motivations for this:
> 
> - The Babel protocol specifies time in 10ms increments, and I want to 
> be
>   able to schedule things to match this.
> 
> - I have some ideas for experimenting with low latency route 
> propagation
>   that are not practical the current granularity.

+1

I'm implementing PopRouting for OSPF (in BIRD obsvly), since it tunes 
the timers to a very precise value, having these granularity is 
necessary.

Gabriel



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