tcp: improve timestamp rtt accuracy

- switch to using vlib_time as reference for timestamps
- use us precision ticks for tcp but keep using ms precision for
timestamps. As a result, srtt, rttvar and rto are now measured in us
instead of ms. MRTT samples from timestamps are converted from ms to
us (not accurate under ms) while high precision samples are used with us
precision, i.e., they're no longer converted to ms precision samples.

Type: improvement

Change-Id: Ibda559575d9b4fdc85b0985264f7c865ff367e34
Signed-off-by: Florin Coras <fcoras@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/vnet/tcp/tcp_cli.c b/src/vnet/tcp/tcp_cli.c
index b76b40474a6..6030440435d 100644
--- a/src/vnet/tcp/tcp_cli.c
+++ b/src/vnet/tcp/tcp_cli.c
@@ -205,10 +205,11 @@ format_tcp_vars (u8 * s, va_list * args)
 	      tc->rcv_opts.tsecr, tc->tsecr_last_ack,
 	      tcp_time_now () - tc->tsval_recent_age);
   s = format (s, " snd_mss %u\n", tc->snd_mss);
-  s = format (s, " rto %u rto_boff %u srtt %u us %.3f rttvar %u rtt_ts %.4f",
-	      tc->rto, tc->rto_boff, tc->srtt, tc->mrtt_us * 1000, tc->rttvar,
-	      tc->rtt_ts);
-  s = format (s, " rtt_seq %u\n", tc->rtt_seq - tc->iss);
+  s = format (s, " rto %u rto_boff %u srtt %.1f us %.3f rttvar %.1f",
+	      tc->rto / 1000, tc->rto_boff, tc->srtt / 1000.0,
+	      tc->mrtt_us * 1e3, tc->rttvar / 1000.0);
+  s = format (s, " rtt_ts %.4f rtt_seq %u\n", tc->rtt_ts,
+	      tc->rtt_seq - tc->iss);
   s = format (s, " next_node %u opaque 0x%x fib_index %u\n",
 	      tc->next_node_index, tc->next_node_opaque, tc->c_fib_index);
   s = format (s, " cong:   %U", format_tcp_congestion, tc);