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authorWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>2014-07-25 18:01:31 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-07-29 11:39:50 -0700
commit68a360e82e55c9b35097e7be7f7991d8f401032f (patch)
tree62ae3d497c487600f8c93bbd541ad763af096e28 /Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
parentce7505882122d9fd72159e902b1ca9cc9d896679 (diff)
packet: remove deprecated syststamp timestamp
No device driver will ever return an skb_shared_info structure with syststamp non-zero, so remove the branch that tests for this and optionally marks the packet timestamp as TP_STATUS_TS_SYS_HARDWARE. Do not remove the definition TP_STATUS_TS_SYS_HARDWARE, as processes may refer to it. Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
index 38112d512f47..a6d7cb91069e 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt
@@ -1008,14 +1008,9 @@ hardware timestamps to be used. Note: you may need to enable the generation
of hardware timestamps with SIOCSHWTSTAMP (see related information from
Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt).
-PACKET_TIMESTAMP accepts the same integer bit field as
-SO_TIMESTAMPING. However, only the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE
-and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE values are recognized by
-PACKET_TIMESTAMP. SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE takes precedence over
-SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE if both bits are set.
-
- int req = 0;
- req |= SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE;
+PACKET_TIMESTAMP accepts the same integer bit field as SO_TIMESTAMPING:
+
+ int req = SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE;
setsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_TIMESTAMP, (void *) &req, sizeof(req))
For the mmap(2)ed ring buffers, such timestamps are stored in the
@@ -1023,14 +1018,13 @@ tpacket{,2,3}_hdr structure's tp_sec and tp_{n,u}sec members. To determine
what kind of timestamp has been reported, the tp_status field is binary |'ed
with the following possible bits ...
- TP_STATUS_TS_SYS_HARDWARE
TP_STATUS_TS_RAW_HARDWARE
TP_STATUS_TS_SOFTWARE
... that are equivalent to its SOF_TIMESTAMPING_* counterparts. For the
-RX_RING, if none of those 3 are set (i.e. PACKET_TIMESTAMP is not set),
-then this means that a software fallback was invoked *within* PF_PACKET's
-processing code (less precise).
+RX_RING, if neither is set (i.e. PACKET_TIMESTAMP is not set), then a
+software fallback was invoked *within* PF_PACKET's processing code (less
+precise).
Getting timestamps for the TX_RING works as follows: i) fill the ring frames,
ii) call sendto() e.g. in blocking mode, iii) wait for status of relevant