Re: [RFC PATCH bpf-next v1 1/3] net: Rename mono_delivery_time to tstamp_type for scalabilty

From: Willem de Bruijn
Date: Wed Apr 10 2024 - 11:31:08 EST


Abhishek Chauhan wrote:
> mono_delivery_time was added to check if skb->tstamp has delivery
> time in mono clock base (i.e. EDT) otherwise skb->tstamp has
> timestamp in ingress and delivery_time at egress.
>
> Renaming the bitfield from mono_delivery_time to tstamp_type is for
> extensibilty for other timestamps such as userspace timestamp
> (i.e. SO_TXTIME) set via sock opts.
>
> Bridge driver today has no support to forward the userspace timestamp
> packets and ends up resetting the timestamp. ETF qdisc checks the
> packet coming from userspace and encounters to be 0 thereby dropping
> time sensitive packets. These changes will allow userspace timestamps
> packets to be forwarded from the bridge to NIC drivers.
>
> In future tstamp_type:1 can be extended to support userspace timestamp
> by increasing the bitfield.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/bc037db4-58bb-4861-ac31-a361a93841d3@xxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Abhishek Chauhan <quic_abchauha@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/skbuff.h | 18 +++++++++---------
> include/net/inet_frag.h | 4 ++--
> net/bridge/netfilter/nf_conntrack_bridge.c | 6 +++---
> net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
> net/core/filter.c | 8 ++++----
> net/ipv4/inet_fragment.c | 2 +-
> net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 2 +-
> net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 8 ++++----
> net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 6 +++---
> net/ipv6/netfilter.c | 6 +++---
> net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c | 2 +-
> net/ipv6/reassembly.c | 2 +-
> net/sched/act_bpf.c | 4 ++--
> net/sched/cls_bpf.c | 4 ++--
> 14 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

Since the next patch against touches many of the same lines, probably
can just squash the two.