netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: add a helper to avoid issues with HW TX timestamping and SO

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Date:   Wed, 10 Mar 2021 07:16:26 -0800
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Po Liu <po.liu@....com>,
        Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: add a helper to avoid issues with HW TX
 timestamping and SO_TXTIME

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 04:50:44PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> As explained in commit 29d98f54a4fe ("net: enetc: allow hardware
> timestamping on TX queues with tc-etf enabled"), hardware TX
> timestamping requires an skb with skb->tstamp = 0. When a packet is sent
> with SO_TXTIME, the skb->skb_mstamp_ns corrupts the value of skb->tstamp,
> so the drivers need to explicitly reset skb->tstamp to zero after
> consuming the TX time.
> 
> Create a helper named skb_txtime_consumed() which does just that. All

Bikeshedding about the name: "consumed" suggests much more to me than
what is going on.

How about this?   skb_reset_txtime();

Thanks,
Richard