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Message-ID: <20210316101901.gkcdczquxrtwpydh@skbuf>
Date:   Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:19:01 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Po Liu <po.liu@....com>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@....com>,
        Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: add a helper to avoid issues with HW TX
 timestamping and SO_TXTIME

Hi Po,

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 02:30:12AM +0000, Po Liu wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can it just move
>
>  skb->tstamp = ktime_set(0, 0);
>
> into
>
> skb_tstamp_tx(skb, &shhwtstamps);
>
> if it always need to clear for HW tstamp setting.

I don't know if that works under all circumstances. Also, to keep the
driver interface consistent, we would also need to plug that into
skb_complete_tx_timestamp, for the case when the driver is working with
a clone directly.
It just seemed simpler to me to modify the few drivers which use SO_TXTIME.

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