tcp: RTT metrics scaling
Some of the metrics (RTT, RTTVAR and RTAX_RTO_MIN) are stored in
kernel units (jiffies) and this leaks out through the netlink API to
user space where the units for jiffies are unknown.
This patches changes the kernel to convert to/from milliseconds. This
changes the ABI, but milliseconds seemed like the most natural unit
for these parameters. Values available via syscall in
/proc/net/rt_cache and netlink will be in milliseconds.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/net/dst.h b/include/net/dst.h
index 002500e..c5c318a 100644
--- a/include/net/dst.h
+++ b/include/net/dst.h
@@ -128,6 +128,18 @@
return mtu;
}
+/* RTT metrics are stored in milliseconds for user ABI, but used as jiffies */
+static inline unsigned long dst_metric_rtt(const struct dst_entry *dst, int metric)
+{
+ return msecs_to_jiffies(dst_metric(dst, metric));
+}
+
+static inline void set_dst_metric_rtt(struct dst_entry *dst, int metric,
+ unsigned long rtt)
+{
+ dst->metrics[metric-1] = jiffies_to_msecs(rtt);
+}
+
static inline u32
dst_allfrag(const struct dst_entry *dst)
{