[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>
This commit is contained in:
Eric Dumazet 2007-04-19 16:16:32 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 3927f2e8f9
commit b7aa0bf70c
20 changed files with 85 additions and 98 deletions

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@ -545,15 +545,20 @@ int compat_sock_get_timestamp(struct sock *sk, struct timeval __user *userstamp)
struct compat_timeval __user *ctv =
(struct compat_timeval __user*) userstamp;
int err = -ENOENT;
struct timeval tv;
if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_TIMESTAMP))
sock_enable_timestamp(sk);
if (sk->sk_stamp.tv_sec == -1)
tv = ktime_to_timeval(sk->sk_stamp);
if (tv.tv_sec == -1)
return err;
if (sk->sk_stamp.tv_sec == 0)
do_gettimeofday(&sk->sk_stamp);
if (put_user(sk->sk_stamp.tv_sec, &ctv->tv_sec) ||
put_user(sk->sk_stamp.tv_usec, &ctv->tv_usec))
if (tv.tv_sec == 0) {
sk->sk_stamp = ktime_get_real();
tv = ktime_to_timeval(sk->sk_stamp);
}
err = 0;
if (put_user(tv.tv_sec, &ctv->tv_sec) ||
put_user(tv.tv_usec, &ctv->tv_usec))
err = -EFAULT;
return err;
}