Replacing C

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 02:12:21PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be>:
> > I had a quick look at some of the stats of my peers over internet,
> > and most actually seem to have an average jitter in the order of
> > around 100 microseconds. Some are lower, some are higher. So I'm
> > not sure how I feel about adding an other 100 to that.
> 
> OK, fair point.
> 
> The rule in my head has been that for whatever jitter maximum we want
> to hit, we need the the 95th-percentile value of the stop-the-world
> bound to to be an order of magnitude below that.

I guess it depends on how often this stop-the-world thing happens.
If it happens every packet 100 us is probably too much, if it
happens every 1000 packets it's probably acceptable.


Kurt