tcp: add tp->tcp_mstamp field

We want to use precise timestamps in TCP stack, but we do not
want to call possibly expensive kernel time services too often.

tp->tcp_mstamp is guaranteed to be updated once per incoming packet.

We will use it in the following patches, removing specific
skb_mstamp_get() calls, and removing ack_time from
struct tcp_sacktag_state.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2017-04-25 10:15:32 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 038a3e858d
commit 69e996c58a
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@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ struct tcp_sock {
u32 tlp_high_seq; /* snd_nxt at the time of TLP retransmit. */
/* RTT measurement */
struct skb_mstamp tcp_mstamp; /* most recent packet received/sent */
u32 srtt_us; /* smoothed round trip time << 3 in usecs */
u32 mdev_us; /* medium deviation */
u32 mdev_max_us; /* maximal mdev for the last rtt period */