netdev - Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] net: per skb control messages

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Message-Id: <200807250112.03379.opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:12:03 +0300
From:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] net: per skb control messages

On Friday 25 July 2008, David Miller wrote:

> Traversing the list and maintaining the reference counting and sharing
> issues is expensive and error prone.

I've notice that :) 

> We have a timestamp in the SKB already, why don't you simply override
> it when your feature is enable and set a single flag bit that
> indicates you used a HW timestamp to set that timestamp?

I thought of something similar, but I am not sure if I can to so, as it seems 
that the skb->tstamp requires current gettimeofday semantics at least in 
netfilter's ipt_time module.

Thanks,
tavi
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