diff options
author | Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> | 2007-04-19 16:16:32 -0700 |
---|---|---|
committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-04-25 22:23:34 -0700 |
commit | b7aa0bf70c4afb9e38be25f5c0922498d0f8684c (patch) | |
tree | 4bc9d61031f4eb40d73887d6bde09e7d6bf2b259 /net/netlink/af_netlink.c | |
parent | 3927f2e8f9afa3424bb51ca81f7abac01ffd0005 (diff) |
[NET]: convert network timestamps to ktime_t
We currently use a special structure (struct skb_timeval) and plain
'struct timeval' to store packet timestamps in sk_buffs and struct
sock.
This has some drawbacks :
- Fixed resolution of micro second.
- Waste of space on 64bit platforms where sizeof(struct timeval)=16
I suggest using ktime_t that is a nice abstraction of high resolution
time services, currently capable of nanosecond resolution.
As sizeof(ktime_t) is 8 bytes, using ktime_t in 'struct sock' permits
a 8 byte shrink of this structure on 64bit architectures. Some other
structures also benefit from this size reduction (struct ipq in
ipv4/ip_fragment.c, struct frag_queue in ipv6/reassembly.c, ...)
Once this ktime infrastructure adopted, we can more easily provide
nanosecond resolution on top of it. (ioctl SIOCGSTAMPNS and/or
SO_TIMESTAMPNS/SCM_TIMESTAMPNS)
Note : this patch includes a bug correction in
compat_sock_get_timestamp() where a "err = 0;" was missing (so this
syscall returned -ENOENT instead of 0)
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
CC: John find <linux.kernel@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink/af_netlink.c')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions