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

[Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>]

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@linux.dev/
> Signed-off-by: Abhishek Chauhan <quic_abchauha@quicinc.com>
> ---
>  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.