netdev - Re: [RFC v3 net-next 14/18] net/sched: Add HW offloading capability to TBS

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Date:   Wed, 21 Mar 2018 08:03:53 -0700
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Jesus Sanchez-Palencia <jesus.sanchez-palencia@...el.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        jiri@...nulli.us, vinicius.gomes@...el.com,
        intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, anna-maria@...utronix.de,
        henrik@...tad.us, john.stultz@...aro.org, levi.pearson@...man.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, willemb@...gle.com, mlichvar@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 net-next 14/18] net/sched: Add HW offloading capability
 to TBS

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 03:22:11PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Which clockid will be handed in from the application? The network adapter
> time has no fixed clockid. The only way you can get to it is via a fd based
> posix clock and that does not work at all because the qdisc setup might
> have a different FD than the application which queues packets.

Duh.  That explains it.  Please ignore my "why not?" Q in the other thread...

Thanks,
Richard