netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] sock: avoid dirtying sk

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Message-ID: <1490888270.24891.73.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:37:50 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sock: avoid dirtying sk_stamp, if possible

On Thu, 2017-03-30 at 16:23 +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:

> That way, if the net timestamp is enable, we will record the timestamp
> of the first packet received by the socket (it can be far away in the
> past).
> I think is just a different kind of approximation.

I see.

This (64bit) sk_stamp stuff is quite buggy on 32bit kernels anyway.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>