linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] rds: store socket timestamps as ktime

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Message-ID: <9758170c-d6f1-5d0a-b05c-12724ebaa0c6@oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 29 Aug 2018 10:00:01 -0700
From:   Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Ka-Cheong Poon <ka-cheong.poon@...cle.com>,
        Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@...il.com>,
        Avinash Repaka <avinash.repaka@...cle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rds: store socket timestamps as ktime_t

On 8/29/2018 8:47 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> rds is the last in-kernel user of the old do_gettimeofday()
> function. Convert it over to ktime_get_real() to make it
> work more like the generic socket timestamps, and to let
> us kill off do_gettimeofday().
> 
> A follow-up patch will have to change the user space interface
> to deal better with 32-bit tasks, which may use an incompatible
> layout for 'struct timespec'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
Thanks Arnd !!

FWIW,
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>