On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Francis Y. Yan <francisy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> To export useful TCP statistics along with timestamps, such as
> rwnd-limited time and min RTT, we enqueue a TLV list in error queue
> immediately when a timestamp is generated.
>
> Specifically, if user space requests SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_* timestamps
> and sets SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS, the kernel will create a list of
> TLVs (struct nlattr) containing all the statistics and store the list
> in payload of the skb that is going to be enqueued into error queue.
> Notice that SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_STATS can only be set together with
> SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY.
>
> In addition, if the application in user space also enables receiving
> timestamp (e.g. by SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE), calling recvfrom() on
> error queue will return one more control message with a cmsg_type of
> SCM_OPT_STATS containing the list of TLVs in its cmsg_data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Francis Y. Yan <francisy...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ych...@google.com>

Acked-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soh...@google.com>

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