From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Joakim Zhang <qiangqing.zhang@nxp.com>,
Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>,
Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V1 net-next 3/4] net: Let the active time stamping layer be selectable.
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 18:08:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220122020854.GA23783@hoboy.vegasvil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220121162327.4p3iqbtt4qtnknhp@skbuf>
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 04:23:27PM +0000, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 07:28:20AM -0800, Richard Cochran wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 02:50:36PM +0000, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > > So as I mentioned earlier, the use case would be hardware performance
> > > testing and diagnosing. You may consider that as not that important, but
> > > this is basically what I had to do for several months, and even wrote
> > > a program for that, that collects packet timestamps at all possible points.
> >
> > This is not possible without making a brand new CMSG to accommodate
> > time stamps from all the various layers.
> >
> > That is completely out of scope for this series.
> >
> > The only practical use case of this series is to switch from PHY back to MAC.
>
> I don't think my proposal is out of scope.
I don't see a way to implement your proposal at all.
If you want to implement your proposal and submit a patch series, I
will gladly drop mine in favor of yours. Otherwise, my series solves
a real world problem and improves the stack at least a little bit.
Thanks,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-22 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-03 23:25 [PATCH RFC V1 net-next 3/4] net: Let the active time stamping layer be selectable Richard Cochran
2022-01-03 23:53 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-01-04 1:42 ` Richard Cochran
2022-04-04 15:05 ` Michael Walle
2022-04-04 15:20 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-04-04 17:12 ` Michael Walle
2022-04-05 5:59 ` Richard Cochran
2022-04-05 8:48 ` Michael Walle
2022-04-05 15:46 ` Richard Cochran
2022-04-05 9:01 ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2022-04-05 9:19 ` Michael Walle
2022-04-05 11:19 ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2022-04-05 13:15 ` Grygorii Strashko
2022-04-05 13:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-04-05 15:48 ` Richard Cochran
2022-04-06 11:18 ` Grygorii Strashko
2022-01-20 16:48 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-01-21 3:38 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-01-21 4:05 ` Richard Cochran
2022-01-21 14:50 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-01-21 15:28 ` Richard Cochran
2022-01-21 16:23 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-01-22 2:08 ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2022-01-24 9:28 ` Miroslav Lichvar
2022-01-24 15:37 ` Richard Cochran
2022-01-25 15:37 ` Vladimir Oltean
2022-01-21 11:05 ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2022-01-21 15:31 ` Richard Cochran
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