From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] net: per skb control messages
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:26:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807250226.38996.opurdila@ixiacom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080724.161859.193696763.davem@davemloft.net>
On Friday 25 July 2008, David Miller wrote:
> > Sure but the problem is that the NIC hw timestamp is not synced with
> > the CPU time. In that case I think that the netfilter rules which
> > are looking at the timestamp will be messed up.
>
> Right, but you can maintain a suitable "delta" between the two.
OK, I think I got the idea now:
- use a bit in the timestamp to specify that this is a hw timestamp
- use a new net_device method to convert a hw timestamp to a gettimeofday
timestamp
This is great, thanks a lot !
tavi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-24 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-23 22:01 [RFC][PATCH 0/3] net: per skb control messages Octavian Purdila
2008-07-23 22:01 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] " Octavian Purdila
2008-07-24 12:46 ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-24 13:34 ` Octavian Purdila
2008-07-24 15:01 ` Herbert Xu
2008-07-24 16:22 ` Octavian Purdila
2008-07-24 20:28 ` David Miller
2008-07-24 21:49 ` Octavian Purdila
2008-07-24 21:56 ` David Miller
2008-07-24 21:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-24 22:35 ` Octavian Purdila
2008-07-24 23:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-24 22:12 ` Octavian Purdila
2008-07-24 22:17 ` David Miller
2008-07-24 23:14 ` Octavian Purdila
2008-07-24 23:18 ` David Miller
2008-07-24 23:26 ` Octavian Purdila [this message]
2008-07-23 22:01 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] ip: support for SOL_SKB control messages for UDP/RAW sockets Octavian Purdila
2008-07-23 22:01 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/3] net: add SKB_SOL control messages Octavian Purdila
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