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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rfc 2/3] virtio-net: support receive timestamp
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:59:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201228145953.08673c8c@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201228162233.2032571-3-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>

On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:22:32 -0500 Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
> 
> Add optional PTP hardware timestamp offload for virtio-net.
> 
> Accurate RTT measurement requires timestamps close to the wire.
> Introduce virtio feature VIRTIO_NET_F_RX_TSTAMP. If negotiated, the
> virtio-net header is expanded with room for a timestamp. A host may
> pass receive timestamps for all or some packets. A timestamp is valid
> if non-zero.
> 
> The timestamp straddles (virtual) hardware domains. Like PTP, use
> international atomic time (CLOCK_TAI) as global clock base. It is
> guest responsibility to sync with host, e.g., through kvm-clock.

Would this not be confusing to some user space SW to have a NIC with 
no PHC deliver HW stamps?

I'd CC Richard on this, unless you already discussed with him offline.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-28 23:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-28 16:22 [PATCH rfc 0/3] virtio-net: add tx-hash, rx-tstamp and tx-tstamp Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-28 16:22 ` [PATCH rfc 1/3] virtio-net: support transmit hash report Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-28 16:28   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-12-28 16:47     ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-28 17:22       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-12-29  1:19         ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-28 21:36   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-12-29  1:23     ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-28 16:22 ` [PATCH rfc 2/3] virtio-net: support receive timestamp Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-28 17:28   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-12-28 19:30     ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-28 21:32       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-12-29  1:05         ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-29  9:17           ` Jason Wang
2020-12-29 14:20             ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-30  8:38               ` Jason Wang
2020-12-28 22:59   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2020-12-29  0:57     ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-30  8:44       ` Jason Wang
2020-12-30 12:30       ` Richard Cochran
2021-02-02 13:05   ` kernel test robot
2021-02-02 14:08   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-02-02 22:17     ` Willem de Bruijn
2021-02-02 23:02       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-02-02 23:43         ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-28 16:22 ` [PATCH rfc 3/3] virtio-net: support transmit timestamp Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-30 12:38   ` Richard Cochran
2020-12-30 15:25     ` Willem de Bruijn
2021-02-02 13:47   ` kernel test robot
2020-12-28 17:29 ` [PATCH rfc 0/3] virtio-net: add tx-hash, rx-tstamp and tx-tstamp Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-12-28 19:51   ` Willem de Bruijn
2020-12-28 21:38     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-12-29  1:14       ` Willem de Bruijn
2021-01-06 20:32         ` Willem de Bruijn

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