From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: edumazet@google.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, leonard.crestez@nxp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp/fq: move back to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2018 23:19:20 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181001.231920.987040554483569743.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180928172844.182542-1-edumazet@google.com>
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 10:28:44 -0700
> In the recent TCP/EDT patch series, I switched TCP and sch_fq
> clocks from MONOTONIC to TAI, in order to meet the choice done
> earlier for sch_etf packet scheduler.
>
> But sure enough, this broke some setups were the TAI clock
> jumps forward (by almost 50 year...), as reported
> by Leonard Crestez.
>
> If we want to converge later, we'll probably need to add
> an skb field to differentiate the clock bases, or a socket option.
>
> In the meantime, an UDP application will need to use CLOCK_MONOTONIC
> base for its SCM_TXTIME timestamps if using fq packet scheduler.
>
> Fixes: 72b0094f9182 ("tcp: switch tcp_clock_ns() to CLOCK_TAI base")
> Fixes: 142537e41923 ("net_sched: sch_fq: switch to CLOCK_TAI")
> Fixes: fd2bca2aa789 ("tcp: switch internal pacing timer to CLOCK_TAI")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Reported-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-02 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-28 17:28 [PATCH net-next] tcp/fq: move back to CLOCK_MONOTONIC Eric Dumazet
2018-09-28 21:27 ` Leonard Crestez
2018-09-28 21:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2018-10-02 6:19 ` David Miller [this message]
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