netdev - Re: [PATCH] tcp: SO_TIMESTAMP implementation for TCP

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Date:	Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:31:43 -0700
From:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: SO_TIMESTAMP implementation for TCP

>> I don't see an nice way to do that, we're profiling a significant
>> percentage of millions of connections over thousands of paths as part
>> of standard operations while incurring negligible overhead.  The app
>> can can easily timestamp its operations, but without some mechanism
>> for getting timestamps out of a TCP connection, the networking portion
>> of servicing requests is pretty much a black box in that.
>
> If other people have an opinion about this, now would be the time
> to speak up. :-)
>
The use case that motivated this patch is really the same as that of
UDP in that application is receiving messages that it wants to to time
stamp; in the case of TCP the application extracts the frames out of
the stream.  The lack of a timestamp to discern when a message was
received over TCP is readily apparent when designing a message based
ULP that can dynamically select which protocol to run over.
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