[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>
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- include/linux/skbuff.h 5 additions, 21 deletionsinclude/linux/skbuff.h
- include/net/sock.h 9 additions, 9 deletionsinclude/net/sock.h
- kernel/time.c 1 addition, 0 deletionskernel/time.c
- net/bridge/netfilter/ebt_ulog.c 4 additions, 2 deletionsnet/bridge/netfilter/ebt_ulog.c
- net/compat.c 10 additions, 5 deletionsnet/compat.c
- net/core/dev.c 4 additions, 15 deletionsnet/core/dev.c
- net/core/sock.c 9 additions, 7 deletionsnet/core/sock.c
- net/econet/af_econet.c 1 addition, 1 deletionnet/econet/af_econet.c
- net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c 4 additions, 4 deletionsnet/ipv4/ip_fragment.c
- net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_queue.c 4 additions, 2 deletionsnet/ipv4/netfilter/ip_queue.c
- net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_ULOG.c 5 additions, 3 deletionsnet/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_ULOG.c
- net/ipv6/exthdrs.c 1 addition, 1 deletionnet/ipv6/exthdrs.c
- net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_queue.c 4 additions, 2 deletionsnet/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_queue.c
- net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c 3 additions, 3 deletionsnet/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c
- net/ipv6/reassembly.c 3 additions, 3 deletionsnet/ipv6/reassembly.c
- net/ipx/af_ipx.c 2 additions, 2 deletionsnet/ipx/af_ipx.c
- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c 4 additions, 4 deletionsnet/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c 4 additions, 4 deletionsnet/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c
- net/packet/af_packet.c 5 additions, 3 deletionsnet/packet/af_packet.c
- net/sunrpc/svcsock.c 3 additions, 7 deletionsnet/sunrpc/svcsock.c
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