Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/2] virtio-net: add flow filter for receive timestamps
From: Willem de Bruijn
Date: Mon Sep 21 2026 - 21:33:08 EST
Steffen Trumtrar wrote:
> This series tries to pick up the work on the virtio-net timestamping
> feature from Willem de Bruijn.
>
> Original series
> Message-Id: 20210208185558.995292-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] virtio-net: add tx-hash, rx-tstamp,
> tx-tstamp and tx-time
> From: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> RFC for four new features to the virtio network device:
>
> 1. pass tx flow state to host, for routing + telemetry
> 2. pass rx tstamp to guest, for better RTT estimation
> 3. pass tx tstamp to guest, idem
> 3. pass tx delivery time to host, for accurate pacing
>
> All would introduce an extension to the virtio spec.
>
> The changes in this series are to the driver side. For the changes to qemu see:
> https://github.com/strumtrar/qemu/tree/v11.0.1/virtio-rx-stamps
What is the plan wrt the virtio spec? +1 on demonstrating working code
first for feasibility.
Does this now also need a spec proposal to virtio-comment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?