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Message-ID: <20201230123854.GB2034@hoboy.vegasvil.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:38:54 -0800
From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Cc: virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
mst@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rfc 3/3] virtio-net: support transmit timestamp
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:22:33AM -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
>
> Add optional delivery time (SO_TXTIME) offload for virtio-net.
>
> The Linux TCP/IP stack tries to avoid bursty transmission and network
> congestion through pacing: computing an skb delivery time based on
> congestion information. Userspace protocol implementations can achieve
> the same with SO_TXTIME. This may also reduce scheduling jitter and
> improve RTT estimation.
This description is clear, but the Subject line is confusing. It made
me wonder whether this series is somehow about host/guest synchronization
(but your comments do explain that that isn't the case).
How about this instead?
virtio-net: support future packet transmit time
Thanks,
Richard
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