[RFC] BPF timestamping
Jung-uk Kim
jkim at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 9 18:45:01 UTC 2010
bpf(4) can only timestamp packets with microtime(9). I want to expand
it to be able to use different format and resolution. The patch is
here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/bpf_tstamp.diff
With this patch, we can select different format and resolution of the
timestamps. It is done via ioctl(2) with BIOCSTSTAMP command.
Similarly, you can get the current format and resolution with
BIOCGTSTAMP command. Currently, the following functions are
available:
BPF_T_MICROTIME microtime(9)
BPF_T_NANOTIME nanotime(9)
BPF_T_BINTIME bintime(9)
BPF_T_MICROTIME_FAST getmicrotime(9)
BPF_T_NANOTIME_FAST getnanotime(9)
BPF_T_BINTIME_FAST getbintime(9)
BPF_T_NONE ignore time stamps
(Note: Additionally, there is an experimental machanism to tag packets
with timestamps in struct bintime format via mbuf_tags(9) from lower
layer, e.g., device driver. However, I didn't test it because I
wasn't sure whether this is the right thing to do.)
While I was here, I moved the bogus SIZEOF_BPF_HDR macro into bpf.c
and tried to make it little bit more correct. For example, the
32-bit shim should be able to handle alignment more properly for
non-Ethernet DLTs. I tried my best not to break ABI/API (especially
for 32-bit platforms) and relevant places are all marked with
BURN_BRIDGES.
What do you think? Is it worth committing?
Thanks,
Jung-uk Kim
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