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From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Erez Geva <erez.geva.ext@siemens.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add TX sending hardware timestamp.
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 09:48:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+FuTScWkYn0Ur+aSuz1cREbQJO0fB6powOm8PFxze4v8JwBaw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201209143707.13503-2-erez.geva.ext@siemens.com>

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 9:37 AM Erez Geva <erez.geva.ext@siemens.com> wrote:
>
> Configure and send TX sending hardware timestamp from
>  user space application to the socket layer,
>  to provide to the TC ETC Qdisc, and pass it to
>  the interface network driver.
>
>  - New flag for the SO_TXTIME socket option.
>  - New access auxiliary data header to pass the
>    TX sending hardware timestamp.
>  - Add the hardware timestamp to the socket cookie.
>  - Copy the TX sending hardware timestamp to the socket cookie.
>
> Signed-off-by: Erez Geva <erez.geva.ext@siemens.com>

Hardware offload of pacing is definitely useful.

I don't think this needs a new separate h/w variant of SO_TXTIME.

Indeed, we want pacing offload to work for existing applications.

It only requires that pacing qdiscs, both sch_etf and sch_fq,
optionally skip queuing in their .enqueue callback and instead allow
the skb to pass to the device driver as is, with skb->tstamp set. Only
to devices that advertise support for h/w pacing offload.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-09 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-09 14:37 [PATCH 0/3] Add sending TX hardware timestamp for TC ETF Qdisc Erez Geva
2020-12-09 14:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add TX sending hardware timestamp Erez Geva
2020-12-09 14:48   ` Willem de Bruijn [this message]
2020-12-09 15:21     ` Geva, Erez
2020-12-09 17:37       ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-09 20:18         ` Geva, Erez
2020-12-10 19:11           ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-10 22:37             ` Geva, Erez
2020-12-10 23:30               ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-11  0:27                 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes
2020-12-11 14:44                   ` Geva, Erez
2020-12-11 15:15                   ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-11 14:22                 ` Geva, Erez
2020-12-10  3:11   ` kernel test robot
2020-12-10 12:41     ` Geva, Erez
2020-12-10 18:17       ` Geva, Erez
2020-12-12  8:47       ` [kbuild-all] " Philip Li
2020-12-16  2:01         ` Rong Chen
2020-12-09 14:37 ` [PATCH 2/3] Pass TX sending hardware timestamp to a socket's buffer Erez Geva
2020-12-09 14:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] The TC ETF Qdisc pass the hardware timestamp to the interface driver Erez Geva

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