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| author | Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> | 2015-01-30 13:29:31 -0500 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-02-02 18:46:51 -0800 |
| commit | 49ca0d8bfaf3bc46d5eef60ce67b00eb195bd392 (patch) | |
| tree | d2f55a32923f6d91fcb2e0d0e0b6d2d4eb6f9abd /Documentation | |
| parent | 9766e97af1b901ffbb36fcc648e50626d926bb24 (diff) | |
net-timestamp: no-payload option
Add timestamping option SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY. For transmit
timestamps, this loops timestamps on top of empty packets.
Doing so reduces the pressure on SO_RCVBUF. Payload inspection and
cmsg reception (aside from timestamps) are no longer possible. This
works together with a follow on patch that allows administrators to
only allow tx timestamping if it does not loop payload or metadata.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
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Changes (rfc -> v1)
- add documentation
- remove unnecessary skb->len test (thanks to Richard Cochran)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt index a5c784c89312..5f0922613f1a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt @@ -162,6 +162,27 @@ SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_CMSG: option IP_PKTINFO simultaneously. +SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY: + + Applies to transmit timestamps only. Makes the kernel return the + timestamp as a cmsg alongside an empty packet, as opposed to + alongside the original packet. This reduces the amount of memory + charged to the socket's receive budget (SO_RCVBUF) and delivers + the timestamp even if sysctl net.core.tstamp_allow_data is 0. + This option disables SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_CMSG. + + +New applications are encouraged to pass SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID to +disambiguate timestamps and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY to operate +regardless of the setting of sysctl net.core.tstamp_allow_data. + +An exception is when a process needs additional cmsg data, for +instance SOL_IP/IP_PKTINFO to detect the egress network interface. +Then pass option SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_CMSG. This option depends on +having access to the contents of the original packet, so cannot be +combined with SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY. + + 1.4 Bytestream Timestamps The SO_TIMESTAMPING interface supports timestamping of bytes in a |