netdev - RE: [PATCH bpf-next 1/3] xsk: add launch time support to XDP Tx metadata

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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 00:02:13 +0000
From: "Song, Yoong Siang" <yoong.siang.song@...el.com>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>, "David S . Miller"
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Subject: RE: [PATCH bpf-next 1/3] xsk: add launch time support to XDP Tx
 metadata

On Friday, December 1, 2023 4:29 AM, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
>Song Yoong Siang wrote:
>> This patch extends the XDP Tx metadata framework to include Time-Based
>> Scheduling (TBS) support where the NIC will schedule a packet for
>> transmission at a pre-determined time called launch time. The value of
>> launch time is communicated from user space to Ethernet driver via
>> launch_time field of struct xsk_tx_metadata.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Song Yoong Siang <yoong.siang.song@...el.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml      |  4 ++++
>>  Documentation/networking/xsk-tx-metadata.rst |  5 +++++
>>  include/net/xdp_sock.h                       | 10 ++++++++++
>>  include/net/xdp_sock_drv.h                   |  1 +
>>  include/uapi/linux/if_xdp.h                  |  9 +++++++++
>>  include/uapi/linux/netdev.h                  |  3 +++
>>  net/core/netdev-genl.c                       |  2 ++
>>  net/xdp/xsk.c                                |  3 +++
>>  tools/include/uapi/linux/if_xdp.h            |  9 +++++++++
>>  tools/include/uapi/linux/netdev.h            |  3 +++
>>  tools/net/ynl/generated/netdev-user.c        |  1 +
>>  11 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml
>b/Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml
>> index 00439bcbd2e3..a602776bbfb4 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml
>> +++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/netdev.yaml
>> @@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ definitions:
>>          name: tx-checksum
>>          doc:
>>            L3 checksum HW offload is supported by the driver.
>> +      -
>> +        name: launch-time
>> +        doc:
>> +          HW Time-Based Scheduling (TBS) is supported by the driver.
>
>Can we avoid introducing another term? We already have too many:
>launchtime, earliest delivery time (EDT), SO_TXTIME,
>pacing offload, earliest txtime first (ETF).
>

Sure. I will change TBS to ETF in my V2 so that it is aligned with etf command in tc application.