linux/net/packet
Soheil Hassas Yeganeh c14ac9451c sock: enable timestamping using control messages
Currently, SOL_TIMESTAMPING can only be enabled using setsockopt.
This is very costly when users want to sample writes to gather
tx timestamps.

Add support for enabling SO_TIMESTAMPING via control messages by
using tsflags added in `struct sockcm_cookie` (added in the previous
patches in this series) to set the tx_flags of the last skb created in
a sendmsg. With this patch, the timestamp recording bits in tx_flags
of the skbuff is overridden if SO_TIMESTAMPING is passed in a cmsg.

Please note that this is only effective for overriding the recording
timestamps flags. Users should enable timestamp reporting (e.g.,
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE | SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID) using
socket options and then should ask for SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_*
using control messages per sendmsg to sample timestamps for each
write.

Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-04 15:50:30 -04:00
..
af_packet.c sock: enable timestamping using control messages 2016-04-04 15:50:30 -04:00
diag.c netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void 2015-01-18 01:03:45 -05:00
internal.h packet: add classic BPF fanout mode 2015-08-17 14:22:47 -07:00
Kconfig packet: Diag core and basic socket info dumping 2012-08-14 16:56:33 -07:00
Makefile packet: Diag core and basic socket info dumping 2012-08-14 16:56:33 -07:00