Merge branch 'tcp-TCP-TS-option-use-1-ms-clock'
Eric Dumazet says: ==================== tcp: TCP TS option use 1 ms clock TCP Timestamps option is defined in RFC 7323 Traditionally on linux, it has been tied to the internal 'jiffy' variable, because it had been a cheap and good enough generator. Unfortunately some distros use HZ=250 or even HZ=100 leading to not very useful TCP timestamps. For TCP flows in the DC, Google has used usec resolution for more than two years with great success [1]. RCVBUF autotuning is more precise. This series converts tp->tcp_mstamp to a plain u64 value storing a 1 usec TCP clock. This choice will allow us to upstream the 1 usec TS option as discussed in IETF 97. Kathleen Nichols [2] and others advocate for 1ms TS clocks for network analysis. (1ms being the lowest value supported by RFC 7323.) [1] https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/97/slides/slides-97-tcpm-tcp-options-for-low-latency-00.pdf [2] http://netseminar.stanford.edu/seminars/02_02_17.pdf ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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