Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: timestamp cloned packet in dev_queue_xmit_nit

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:56:17 +0800

> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Le vendredi 17 décembre 2010 à 10:26 +0100, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
>> [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: timestamp cloned packet in dev_queue_xmit_nit
>>
>> Now we do one clone of skb if at least one sniffer might take packet,
>> we also can do the skb timestamping on the clone and let original packet
>> unchanged.
>>
>> This is a generalization of commit 8caf153974f2 (net: sch_netem: Fix an
>> inconsistency in ingress netem timestamps.)
>>
>> This way, we can have a good idea when packets are delivered to our
>> stack (tcpdump -i ifb0), while a tcpdump on original device gives
>> timestamps right before ingressing.
>>
>> This also speedup our stack, avoiding taking timestamps if not needed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
>> Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks.