19 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • This patch removes the abstraction introduced by the union skb_shared_tx in
    the shared skb data.

    The access of the different union elements at several places led to some
    confusion about accessing the shared tx_flags e.g. in skb_orphan_try().

    http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128084897415886&w=2

    Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Oliver Hartkopp
     

08 Apr, 2010

1 commit


16 Feb, 2009

2 commits

  • Instructions for time stamping outgoing packets are take from the
    socket layer and later copied into the new skb.

    Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Patrick Ohly
     
  • User space can request hardware and/or software time stamping.
    Reporting of the result(s) via a new control message is enabled
    separately for each field in the message because some of the
    fields may require additional computation and thus cause overhead.
    User space can tell the different kinds of time stamps apart
    and choose what suits its needs.

    When a TX timestamp operation is requested, the TX skb will be cloned
    and the clone will be time stamped (in hardware or software) and added
    to the socket error queue of the skb, if the skb has a socket
    associated with it.

    The actual TX timestamp will reach userspace as a RX timestamp on the
    cloned packet. If timestamping is requested and no timestamping is
    done in the device driver (potentially this may use hardware
    timestamping), it will be done in software after the device's
    start_hard_xmit routine.

    Signed-off-by: Patrick Ohly
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Patrick Ohly