"Expensive timeout(9) function..."

[Mike Silbersack]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Yar Tikhiy wrote:

> Thanks for your explanation!
>
> I hope this little thread will draw the attention of the
> responsible or interested parties to the warnings ;-)
>
> --
> Yar

The _tick routines are not easy to fix, FWIW.  MII access functions are
quite time consuming almost any way you look at it.

Well, actually, I figured out a way to make them much faster, but it's
been a few months since I looked at that patch, I guess I should pull it
back up and post it somewhere...

Mike "Silby" Silbersack