netdev - Re: [RFC] support for IEEE 1588

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Date:	Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:15:03 -0700
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] support for IEEE 1588

Octavian Purdila wrote:
> On Friday 04 July 2008, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> 
>>>1. RX path
>>>- add a new field in skb to keep the hardware stamp (hwstamp)
>>>- add a new socket flag to enable RX stamping
>>>- add a new control message to retrieve the hwstamp from the skb to
>>>user-space application (for UDP and maybe PF_PACKET)
>>
>>The existing skb timestamp is there, and if the hardware supports it, it
>>could be updated by the device driver  I had a version of sky2 that did
>>just that but never fully pushed it upstream because of available time and
>>testing issues.
>>
>>The API's are already there (and used) for timestamping; don't invent
>>new ones.
> 
> 
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to respond.
> 
> The hardware we will be using will not have the timestamping unit synchronized 
> to gettimeofday(). In this conditions, is it OK to put our hw stamp into 
> skb->tstamp?

I've not had a good emily litella moment in at least a week, so I'll ask 
- if the clock in the hardware generating the timestamp and the clock in 
the host aren't synchronized in _some_ way, what benefit is there to 
putting the hardware's timestamp in there?

rick jones
wonders the extent to which 1588 might enable one-way latency 
measurements in something like netperf...
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