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Message-ID: <20210112174625.40c02021@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:46:25 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
Cc: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>,
linux-can@...r.kernel.org,
Jeroen Hofstee <jhofstee@...tronenergy.com>,
Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
"open list : NETWORKING DRIVERS" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] can: dev: add software tx timestamps
On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:03:00 +0100 Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 1/12/21 10:54 AM, Vincent Mailhol wrote:
> > Call skb_tx_timestamp() within can_put_echo_skb() so that a software
> > tx timestamp gets attached on the skb.
> >
> > There two main reasons to include this call in can_put_echo_skb():
> >
> > * It easily allow to enable the tx timestamp on all devices with
> > just one small change.
> >
> > * According to Documentation/networking/timestamping.rst, the tx
> > timestamps should be generated in the device driver as close as
> > possible, but always prior to passing the packet to the network
> > interface. During the call to can_put_echo_skb(), the skb gets
> > cloned meaning that the driver should not dereference the skb
> > variable anymore after can_put_echo_skb() returns. This makes
> > can_put_echo_skb() the very last place we can use the skb without
> > having to access the echo_skb[] array.
> >
> > Remark: by default, skb_tx_timestamp() does nothing. It needs to be
> > activated by passing the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE flag either
> > through socket options or control messages.
> >
> > References:
> >
> > * Support for the error queue in CAN RAW sockets (which is needed for
> > tx timestamps) was introduced in:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=eb88531bdbfaafb827192d1fc6c5a3fcc4fadd96
> >
> > * Put the call to skb_tx_timestamp() just before adding it to the
> > array: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/10/54
> >
> > * About Tx hardware timestamps
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/20210111171152.GB11715@hoboy.vegasvil.org/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>
>
> Applied to linux-can-next/testing
Please make sure to address the warnings before this hits net-next:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20210112130538.14912-2-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr/
Actually it appears not to build with allmodconfig..?
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