From 614f60fa9d73a9e8fdff3df83381907fea7c5649 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott McMillan Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 05:53:56 -0700 Subject: packet_mmap: expose hw packet timestamps to network packet capture utilities This patch adds a setting, PACKET_TIMESTAMP, to specify the packet timestamp source that is exported to capture utilities like tcpdump by packet_mmap. PACKET_TIMESTAMP accepts the same integer bit field as SO_TIMESTAMPING. However, only the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE values are currently recognized by PACKET_TIMESTAMP. SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE takes precedence over SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE if both bits are set. If PACKET_TIMESTAMP is not set, a software timestamp generated inside the networking stack is used (the behavior before this setting was added). Signed-off-by: Scott McMillan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt index 98f71a5cef00..2546aa4dc232 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt @@ -493,6 +493,32 @@ The user can also use poll() to check if a buffer is available: pfd.events = POLLOUT; retval = poll(&pfd, 1, timeout); +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ++ PACKET_TIMESTAMP +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The PACKET_TIMESTAMP setting determines the source of the timestamp in +the packet meta information. If your NIC is capable of timestamping +packets in hardware, you can request those hardware timestamps to used. +Note: you may need to enable the generation of hardware timestamps with +SIOCSHWTSTAMP. + +PACKET_TIMESTAMP accepts the same integer bit field as +SO_TIMESTAMPING. However, only the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE +and SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE values are recognized by +PACKET_TIMESTAMP. SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE takes precedence over +SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE if both bits are set. + + int req = 0; + req |= SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE; + setsockopt(fd, SOL_PACKET, PACKET_TIMESTAMP, (void *) &req, sizeof(req)) + +If PACKET_TIMESTAMP is not set, a software timestamp generated inside +the networking stack is used (the behavior before this setting was added). + +See include/linux/net_tstamp.h and Documentation/networking/timestamping +for more information on hardware timestamps. + -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + THANKS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3