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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 01:12:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807250112.03379.opurdila@ixiacom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080724.145600.30988015.davem@davemloft.net>

On Friday 25 July 2008, David Miller wrote:

> Traversing the list and maintaining the reference counting and sharing
> issues is expensive and error prone.

I've notice that :) 

> We have a timestamp in the SKB already, why don't you simply override
> it when your feature is enable and set a single flag bit that
> indicates you used a HW timestamp to set that timestamp?

I thought of something similar, but I am not sure if I can to so, as it seems 
that the skb->tstamp requires current gettimeofday semantics at least in 
netfilter's ipt_time module.

Thanks,
tavi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-24 22:14 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 [this message]
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
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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