Linux TCP socket timestamping option

Quoting form this online kernel doc

• SO_TIMESTAMPING Generates timestamps on reception, transmission or both. Supports multiple timestamp sources, including hardware. Supports generating timestamps for stream sockets.

Linux supports TCP timestamping, and I tried to write some demo code to get any timestamp for TCP packet.

The server code as below:

//Bind
if( bind(socket_desc,(struct sockaddr *)&server , sizeof(server)) < 0)
{
    perror("bind failed. Error");
    return 1;
}
puts("bind done");

//Listen
listen(socket_desc , 3);

//Accept and incoming connection
puts("Waiting for incoming connections...");
int c = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);

client_sock = accept(socket_desc, (struct sockaddr *)&client, (socklen_t*)&c);
if (client_sock < 0)
{
    perror("accept failed");
    return 1;
}

// Note: I am trying to get software timestamp only here..
int oval = SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE | SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE;
int olen = sizeof( oval );
if ( setsockopt( client_sock, SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING, &oval, olen ) < 0 )
    { perror( "setsockopt TIMESTAMP"); exit(1); }

puts("Connection accepted");

char    buf[] = "----------------------------------------";
int len = strlen( buf );

struct iovec    myiov[1] = { {buf, len } };

unsigned char   cbuf[ 40 ] = { 0 };
int     clen = sizeof( cbuf ); 

struct msghdr   mymsghdr = { 0 };
mymsghdr.msg_name   = NULL;
mymsghdr.msg_namelen    = 0;
mymsghdr.msg_iov    = myiov;
mymsghdr.msg_iovlen = 1;
mymsghdr.msg_control    = cbuf;
mymsghdr.msg_controllen = clen;
mymsghdr.msg_flags  = 0;

int read_size = recvmsg( client_sock, &mymsghdr, 0);

if(read_size == 0)
{
  puts("Client disconnected");
  fflush(stdout);
}
else if(read_size == -1)
{
  perror("recv failed");
}
else
{
  struct msghdr *msgp = &mymsghdr;
  printf("msg received: %s \n",(char*)msgp->msg_iov[0].iov_base);// This line is successfully hit.
  // Additional info: print msgp->msg_controllen inside gdb is 0.
  struct cmsghdr    *cmsg;
  for ( cmsg = CMSG_FIRSTHDR( msgp );
      cmsg != NULL;
      cmsg = CMSG_NXTHDR( msgp, cmsg ) )
  {
    printf("Time GOT!\n"); // <-- This line is not hit.
    if (( cmsg->cmsg_level == SOL_SOCKET )
        &&( cmsg->cmsg_type == SO_TIMESTAMPING ))
      printf("TIME GOT2\n");// <-- of course , this line is not hit
  } 

}

Any ideas why no timestamping is available here ? Thanks

Solution I am able to get the software timestamp along with hardware timestamp using onload with solarflare NIC. Still no idea how to get software timestamp alone.