On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:38:41 +0100
Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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, ...)
>
>
You missed a couple of spots.
--- tcp-2.6.orig/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c 2007-03-02 12:50:45.000000000 -0800
+++ tcp-2.6/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c 2007-03-02 12:58:28.000000000 -0800
@@ -805,16 +805,9 @@
/* possibly an icmp error */
dprintk("svc: recvfrom returned error %d\n", -err);
}
- if (skb->tstamp.off_sec == 0) {
- struct timeval tv;
- tv.tv_sec = xtime.tv_sec;
- tv.tv_usec = xtime.tv_nsec / NSEC_PER_USEC;
- skb_set_timestamp(skb, &tv);
- /* Don't enable netstamp, sunrpc doesn't
- need that much accuracy */
- }
- skb_get_timestamp(skb, &svsk->sk_sk->sk_stamp);
+ svsk->sk_sk->sk_stamp = (skb->tstamp.tv64 != 0) ? skb->tstamp
+ : ktime_get_real();
set_bit(SK_DATA, &svsk->sk_flags); /* there may be more data... */
/*
--- tcp-2.6.orig/kernel/time.c 2007-03-02 12:59:55.000000000 -0800
+++ tcp-2.6/kernel/time.c 2007-03-02 13:00:08.000000000 -0800
@@ -469,6 +469,8 @@
return tv;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ns_to_timeval);
+
/*
* Convert jiffies to milliseconds and back.
--
Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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