From 319840b83b70b49705928687dcbd40653709e305 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 07:50:43 -0800
Subject: trafgen: disable timer slack

linux has default time slack of 50 usec, which means that trafgen
'gap' option is unable to precisely control delays.

Set the process timer slack to the minimum of 1 nsec.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
---
 trafgen.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

(limited to 'trafgen.c')

diff --git a/trafgen.c b/trafgen.c
index 0a645d4..9151b5d 100644
--- a/trafgen.c
+++ b/trafgen.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <sys/socket.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/fsuid.h>
+#include <sys/prctl.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/wait.h>
@@ -957,6 +958,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 		case 't':
 			slow = true;
 			ptr = optarg;
+			prctl(PR_SET_TIMERSLACK, 1UL);
 			gap = strtoul(optarg, NULL, 0);
 
 			for (j = i = strlen(optarg); i > 0; --i) {
-- 
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