From: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 08:35:02 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Merge branch 'tcp-ts-usec-resolution'
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Merge branch 'tcp-ts-usec-resolution'

Eric Dumazet says:

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tcp: add optional usec resolution to TCP TS

As discussed in various public places in 2016, Google adopted
usec resolution in RFC 7323 TS values, at Van Jacobson suggestion.

Goals were :

1) better observability of delays in networking stacks/fabrics.

2) better disambiguation of events based on TSval/ecr values.

3) building block for congestion control modules needing usec resolution.

Back then we implemented a schem based on private SYN options
to safely negotiate the feature.

For upstream submission, we chose to use a much simpler route
attribute because this feature is probably going to be used
in private networks.

ip route add 10/8 ... features tcp_usec_ts

References:

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/97/slides/slides-97-tcpm-tcp-options-for-low-latency-00.pdf
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-tcpm-low-latency-opt/

First two patches are fixing old minor bugs and might be taken
by stable teams (thanks to appropriate Fixes: tags)
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Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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