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authorMiroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>2017-05-19 17:52:40 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-05-21 13:37:32 -0400
commitb50a5c70ffa4fd6b6da324ab54c84adf48fb17d9 (patch)
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net: allow simultaneous SW and HW transmit timestamping
Add SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TX_SWHW option to allow an outgoing packet to be looped to the socket's error queue with a software timestamp even when a hardware transmit timestamp is expected to be provided by the driver. Applications using this option will receive two separate messages from the error queue, one with a software timestamp and the other with a hardware timestamp. As the hardware timestamp is saved to the shared skb info, which may happen before the first message with software timestamp is received by the application, the hardware timestamp is copied to the SCM_TIMESTAMPING control message only when the skb has no software timestamp or it is an incoming packet. While changing sw_tx_timestamp(), inline it in skb_tx_timestamp() as there are no other users. CC: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> CC: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
index 50eb0e554778..196ba17cc344 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping.txt
@@ -203,6 +203,14 @@ SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_PKTINFO:
enabled and the driver is using NAPI. The struct contains also two
other fields, but they are reserved and undefined.
+SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TX_SWHW:
+
+ Request both hardware and software timestamps for outgoing packets
+ when SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_HARDWARE and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE
+ are enabled at the same time. If both timestamps are generated,
+ two separate messages will be looped to the socket's error queue,
+ each containing just one timestamp.
+
New applications are encouraged to pass SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID to
disambiguate timestamps and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY to operate
regardless of the setting of sysctl net.core.tstamp_allow_data.