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authorFrancis Yan <francisyyan@gmail.com>2016-11-28 10:07:18 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-11-30 18:04:25 +0300
commit1c885808e45601b2b6f68b30ac1d999e10b6f606 (patch)
tree4878c60feb2769477239b63194ce5946129bcd75 /include/linux/tcp.h
parentefd90174167530c67a54273fd5d8369c87f9bd32 (diff)
downloadlinux-1c885808e45601b2b6f68b30ac1d999e10b6f606.tar.xz
tcp: SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS option for SO_TIMESTAMPING
This patch exports the sender chronograph stats via the socket SO_TIMESTAMPING channel. Currently we can instrument how long a particular application unit of data was queued in TCP by tracking SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SCHED. Having these sender chronograph stats exported simultaneously along with these timestamps allow further breaking down the various sender limitation. For example, a video server can tell if a particular chunk of video on a connection takes a long time to deliver because TCP was experiencing small receive window. It is not possible to tell before this patch without packet traces. To prepare these stats, the user needs to set SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY flags while requesting other SOF_TIMESTAMPING TX timestamps. When the timestamps are available in the error queue, the stats are returned in a separate control message of type SCM_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS, in a list of TLVs (struct nlattr) of types: TCP_NLA_BUSY_TIME, TCP_NLA_RWND_LIMITED, TCP_NLA_SNDBUF_LIMITED. Unit is microsecond. Signed-off-by: Francis Yan <francisyyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/tcp.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tcp.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tcp.h b/include/linux/tcp.h
index d5d3bd814338..00e0ee8f001f 100644
--- a/include/linux/tcp.h
+++ b/include/linux/tcp.h
@@ -428,4 +428,6 @@ static inline void tcp_saved_syn_free(struct tcp_sock *tp)
tp->saved_syn = NULL;
}
+struct sk_buff *tcp_get_timestamping_opt_stats(const struct sock *sk);
+
#endif /* _LINUX_TCP_H */