Re: GSoC 2011 project proposal [packet timestamping]

[Dmitry Cherkassov <dcherkassov%gmail.com@localhost>]

Great thanks for your attention & time!

I devised the following project deliverables to source tree:

1. Set of patches to src/sys/[kern,netinet]/
2. [Probably]  tstamp_clk.c source file to src/sys/kern (?)
(timestamping clock API)

So my questions are:

1. Where (to what files in src/sys) should these changes go?

2. Also, what else should be mentioned in proposal?
(The proposal itself is here:
http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/dcherkassov/1
)

3. Is the following short description of proposal is clear?

>It is often needed for applications that receive data via UDP to store data 
>together
>with its reception time, or account packets arrival time as precisely as 
>possible.
>
>Right now NetBSD provides some basic packet timestamping which needs
>to be extended and implemented in NIC drivers.

>The idea if this project is to implement timestamping as a capability (like a 
>jumbogram).
>If network driver doesn't support it timestamping will be done in if_input 
>(with a small loss of accuracy).