netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/3] Improvements to SJA1105 DSA RX timestamping

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Message-Id: <20191230.203157.1125329411445432472.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:31:57 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     olteanv@...il.com
Cc:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, richardcochran@...il.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, vivien.didelot@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/3] Improvements to SJA1105 DSA RX
 timestamping

From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:02:27 +0200

> This series makes the sja1105 DSA driver use a dedicated kernel thread
> for RX timestamping, a process which is time-sensitive and otherwise a
> bit fragile. This allows users to customize their system (probabil an
> embedded PTP switch) fully and allocate the CPU bandwidth for the driver
> to expedite the RX timestamps as quickly as possible.
> 
> While doing this conversion, add a function to the PTP core for
> cancelling this kernel thread (function which I found rather strange to
> be missing).

Series applied, thanks Vladimir.