net: Add skb->mono_delivery_time to distinguish mono delivery_time from (rcv) timestamp

skb->tstamp was first used as the (rcv) timestamp.
The major usage is to report it to the user (e.g. SO_TIMESTAMP).

Later, skb->tstamp is also set as the (future) delivery_time (e.g. EDT in TCP)
during egress and used by the qdisc (e.g. sch_fq) to make decision on when
the skb can be passed to the dev.

Currently, there is no way to tell skb->tstamp having the (rcv) timestamp
or the delivery_time, so it is always reset to 0 whenever forwarded
between egress and ingress.

While it makes sense to always clear the (rcv) timestamp in skb->tstamp
to avoid confusing sch_fq that expects the delivery_time, it is a
performance issue [0] to clear the delivery_time if the skb finally
egress to a fq@phy-dev.  For example, when forwarding from egress to
ingress and then finally back to egress:

            tcp-sender => veth@netns => veth@hostns => fq@eth0@hostns
                                     ^              ^
                                     reset          rest

This patch adds one bit skb->mono_delivery_time to flag the skb->tstamp
is storing the mono delivery_time (EDT) instead of the (rcv) timestamp.

The current use case is to keep the TCP mono delivery_time (EDT) and
to be used with sch_fq.  A latter patch will also allow tc-bpf@ingress
to read and change the mono delivery_time.

In the future, another bit (e.g. skb->user_delivery_time) can be added
for the SCM_TXTIME where the clock base is tracked by sk->sk_clockid.

[ This patch is a prep work.  The following patches will
  get the other parts of the stack ready first.  Then another patch
  after that will finally set the skb->mono_delivery_time. ]

skb_set_delivery_time() function is added.  It is used by the tcp_output.c
and during ip[6] fragmentation to assign the delivery_time to
the skb->tstamp and also set the skb->mono_delivery_time.

A note on the change in ip_send_unicast_reply() in ip_output.c.
It is only used by TCP to send reset/ack out of a ctl_sk.
Like the new skb_set_delivery_time(), this patch sets
the skb->mono_delivery_time to 0 for now as a place
holder.  It will be enabled in a latter patch.
A similar case in tcp_ipv6 can be done with
skb_set_delivery_time() in tcp_v6_send_response().

[0] (slide 22): https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/contributions/953/attachments/867/1658/LPC_2021_BPF_Datapath_Extensions.pdf

Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
index e76bf1e9251e8..2319531267c68 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
@@ -1253,7 +1253,7 @@ static int __tcp_transmit_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	tp = tcp_sk(sk);
 	prior_wstamp = tp->tcp_wstamp_ns;
 	tp->tcp_wstamp_ns = max(tp->tcp_wstamp_ns, tp->tcp_clock_cache);
-	skb->skb_mstamp_ns = tp->tcp_wstamp_ns;
+	skb_set_delivery_time(skb, tp->tcp_wstamp_ns, true);
 	if (clone_it) {
 		oskb = skb;
 
@@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ int tcp_fragment(struct sock *sk, enum tcp_queue tcp_queue,
 
 	skb_split(skb, buff, len);
 
-	buff->tstamp = skb->tstamp;
+	skb_set_delivery_time(buff, skb->tstamp, true);
 	tcp_fragment_tstamp(skb, buff);
 
 	old_factor = tcp_skb_pcount(skb);
@@ -2616,7 +2616,8 @@ static bool tcp_write_xmit(struct sock *sk, unsigned int mss_now, int nonagle,
 
 		if (unlikely(tp->repair) && tp->repair_queue == TCP_SEND_QUEUE) {
 			/* "skb_mstamp_ns" is used as a start point for the retransmit timer */
-			skb->skb_mstamp_ns = tp->tcp_wstamp_ns = tp->tcp_clock_cache;
+			tp->tcp_wstamp_ns = tp->tcp_clock_cache;
+			skb_set_delivery_time(skb, tp->tcp_wstamp_ns, true);
 			list_move_tail(&skb->tcp_tsorted_anchor, &tp->tsorted_sent_queue);
 			tcp_init_tso_segs(skb, mss_now);
 			goto repair; /* Skip network transmission */
@@ -3541,11 +3542,12 @@ struct sk_buff *tcp_make_synack(const struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst,
 	now = tcp_clock_ns();
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES
 	if (unlikely(synack_type == TCP_SYNACK_COOKIE && ireq->tstamp_ok))
-		skb->skb_mstamp_ns = cookie_init_timestamp(req, now);
+		skb_set_delivery_time(skb, cookie_init_timestamp(req, now),
+				      true);
 	else
 #endif
 	{
-		skb->skb_mstamp_ns = now;
+		skb_set_delivery_time(skb, now, true);
 		if (!tcp_rsk(req)->snt_synack) /* Timestamp first SYNACK */
 			tcp_rsk(req)->snt_synack = tcp_skb_timestamp_us(skb);
 	}
@@ -3594,7 +3596,7 @@ struct sk_buff *tcp_make_synack(const struct sock *sk, struct dst_entry *dst,
 	bpf_skops_write_hdr_opt((struct sock *)sk, skb, req, syn_skb,
 				synack_type, &opts);
 
-	skb->skb_mstamp_ns = now;
+	skb_set_delivery_time(skb, now, true);
 	tcp_add_tx_delay(skb, tp);
 
 	return skb;
@@ -3771,7 +3773,7 @@ static int tcp_send_syn_data(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *syn)
 
 	err = tcp_transmit_skb(sk, syn_data, 1, sk->sk_allocation);
 
-	syn->skb_mstamp_ns = syn_data->skb_mstamp_ns;
+	skb_set_delivery_time(syn, syn_data->skb_mstamp_ns, true);
 
 	/* Now full SYN+DATA was cloned and sent (or not),
 	 * remove the SYN from the original skb (syn_data)