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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:16:26 -0800 (PST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: patrick.ohly@...el.com Cc: johnstul@...ibm.com, john.ronciak@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH NET-NEXT 0/10] hardware time stamping with new fields in shinfo From: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@...el.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:03:01 +0100 > This revision of the patch series transports hardware time stamps from > the hardware into user space via additional fields in struct > skb_shared_info. It's based on net-next-2.6 as of this morning. > > This is the solution that emerged from the discussion of the other > approaches suggested before (reuse tstamp, extend skbuff, optional > structs): it has the advantage of not touching skbuff and also has the > simplest implementation. > > The clocksource and timecompare patches have been reviewed by John > Stultz. He doesn't mind merging them via the net subtree. > > John Ronciak reviewed the igb driver patches. He suggested to merge the > patches as they; after all, PTPd already works fine. I just tested again > on 32 and 64 bit x86, both with the timestamping example programs as > well as with PTPd. Latest patched PTPd is here: > http://github.com/pohly/ptpd/tree/master > > The open TODOs in the igb driver will be fixed. We think that this will > be easier with the infrastructure and the driver in a regular kernel > tree. Ok, I applied everything and pushed it out to net-next-2.6, let's see how this goes :-) That TX clone wrt. skb_orphan() issue will need a happier solution. Can you describe that problem in detail? Maybe someone can come up with a way to avoid that stuff. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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