Eric Dumazet says:
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tcp: add optional usec resolution to TCP TS
As discussed in various public places in 2016, Google adopted
usec resolution in RFC 7323 TS values, at Van Jacobson suggestion.
Goals were :
1) better observability of delays in networking stacks/fabrics.
2) better disambiguation of events based on TSval/ecr values.
3) building block for congestion control modules needing usec resolution.
Back then we implemented a schem based on private SYN options
to safely negotiate the feature.
For upstream submission, we chose to use a much simpler route
attribute because this feature is probably going to be used
in private networks.
ip route add 10/8 ... features tcp_usec_ts
References:
https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/97/slides/slides-97-tcpm-tcp-options-for-low-latency-00.pdf
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-tcpm-low-latency-opt/
First two patches are fixing old minor bugs and might be taken
by stable teams (thanks to appropriate Fixes: tags)
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Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>