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    net/udp_gso: Allow TX timestamp with UDP GSO · 76e21533
    Fred Klassen authored
    Fixes an issue where TX Timestamps are not arriving on the error queue
    when UDP_SEGMENT CMSG type is combined with CMSG type SO_TIMESTAMPING.
    This can be illustrated with an updated updgso_bench_tx program which
    includes the '-T' option to test for this condition. It also introduces
    the '-P' option which will call poll() before reading the error queue.
    
        ./udpgso_bench_tx -4ucTPv -S 1472 -l2 -D 172.16.120.18
        poll timeout
        udp tx:      0 MB/s        1 calls/s      1 msg/s
    
    The "poll timeout" message above indicates that TX timestamp never
    arrived.
    
    This patch preserves tx_flags for the first UDP GSO segment. Only the
    first segment is timestamped, even though in some cases there may be
    benefital in timestamping both the first and last segment.
    
    Factors in deciding on first segment timestamp only:
    
    - Timestamping both first and last segmented is not feasible. Hardware
    can only have one outstanding TS request at a time.
    
    - Timestamping last segment may under report network latency of the
    previous segments. Even though the doorbell is suppressed, the ring
    producer counter has been incremented.
    
    - Timestamping the first segment has the upside in that it reports
    timestamps from the application's view, e.g. RTT.
    
    - Timestamping the first segment has the downside that it may
    underreport tx host network latency. It appears that we have to pick
    one or the other. And possibly follow-up with a config flag to choose
    behavior.
    
    v2: Remove tests as noted by Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
        Moving tests from net to net-next
    
    v3: Update only relevant tx_flag bits as per
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
    
    v4: Update comments and commit message as per
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
    
    Fixes: ee80d1eb ("udp: add udp gso")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFred Klassen <fklassen@appneta.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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