[PATCH net-next v2] sfc: add transmit timestamping support

From: Izabela Bakollari

Date: Mon Mar 30 2026 - 02:35:23 EST


Add ethtool op to advertise TX timestamping. Insert a
skb_tx_timestamp call in __efx_enqueue_skb.

Signed-off-by: Izabela Bakollari <ibakolla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ethtool.c | 2 ++
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/tx.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ethtool.c
index 362388754a29..c0038b942913 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ethtool.c
@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ static int efx_ethtool_get_ts_info(struct net_device *net_dev,
{
struct efx_nic *efx = efx_netdev_priv(net_dev);

+ ts_info->so_timestamping = SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE;
+
efx_ptp_get_ts_info(efx, ts_info);
return 0;
}
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/tx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/tx.c
index 4dff19b6ef17..ea0fc1000476 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/tx.c
@@ -371,6 +371,8 @@ netdev_tx_t __efx_enqueue_skb(struct efx_tx_queue *tx_queue, struct sk_buff *skb
if (!data_mapped && (efx_tx_map_data(tx_queue, skb, segments)))
goto err;

+ skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
+
efx_tx_maybe_stop_queue(tx_queue);

tx_queue->xmit_pending = true;
--
2.51.0