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| author | Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> | 2014-08-04 22:11:48 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-08-05 16:35:54 -0700 |
| commit | e7fd2885385157d46c85f282fc6d7d297db43e1f (patch) | |
| tree | 14e9d00ed87b2b45882c8cb8dd1b9b4d221724f8 /include/linux/skbuff.h | |
| parent | 09c2d251b70723650ba47e83571ff49281320f7c (diff) | |
net-timestamp: SCHED timestamp on entering packet scheduler
Kernel transmit latency is often incurred in the packet scheduler.
Introduce a new timestamp on transmission just before entering the
scheduler. When data travels through multiple devices (bonding,
tunneling, ...) each device will export an individual timestamp.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/skbuff.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/skbuff.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h index 0e35b3af731..50e1e9b3a5a 100644 --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ enum { /* generate hardware time stamp */ SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP = 1 << 0, - /* generate software time stamp */ + /* generate software time stamp when queueing packet to NIC */ SKBTX_SW_TSTAMP = 1 << 1, /* device driver is going to provide hardware time stamp */ @@ -247,9 +247,12 @@ enum { * all frags to avoid possible bad checksum */ SKBTX_SHARED_FRAG = 1 << 5, + + /* generate software time stamp when entering packet scheduling */ + SKBTX_SCHED_TSTAMP = 1 << 6, }; -#define SKBTX_ANY_SW_TSTAMP SKBTX_SW_TSTAMP +#define SKBTX_ANY_SW_TSTAMP (SKBTX_SW_TSTAMP | SKBTX_SCHED_TSTAMP) #define SKBTX_ANY_TSTAMP (SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP | SKBTX_ANY_SW_TSTAMP) /* @@ -2695,6 +2698,10 @@ static inline bool skb_defer_rx_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb) void skb_complete_tx_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb, struct skb_shared_hwtstamps *hwtstamps); +void __skb_tstamp_tx(struct sk_buff *orig_skb, + struct skb_shared_hwtstamps *hwtstamps, + struct sock *sk, int tstype); + /** * skb_tstamp_tx - queue clone of skb with send time stamps * @orig_skb: the original outgoing packet |