On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:22:33AM -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote: > From: Willem de Bruijn <will...@google.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
