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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Harshitha Ramamurthy <hramamurthy@google.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com,
	pabeni@redhat.com, jeroendb@google.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch,
	willemb@google.com, ziweixiao@google.com,
	pkaligineedi@google.com, yyd@google.com, joshwash@google.com,
	shailend@google.com, linux@treblig.org, thostet@google.com,
	jfraker@google.com, richardcochran@gmail.com, jdamato@fastly.com,
	vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev, horms@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] gve: Add Rx HW timestamping support
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:23:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250610182348.03069023@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250609184029.2634345-1-hramamurthy@google.com>

On Mon,  9 Jun 2025 18:40:21 +0000 Harshitha Ramamurthy wrote:
> This patch series add the support of Rx HW timestamping, which sends
> adminq commands periodically to the device for clock synchronization with
> the nic.

IIUC:
 - the driver will only register the PHC if timestamping is enabled
   (and unregister it when disabled),
 - there is no way to read the PHC from user space other than via
   packet timestamps,
 - the ethtool API does not report which PHC is associated with the
   NIC, presumably because the PHC is useless to the user space.

Do I understand that correctly? It's pretty unusual. Why not let user
read the clock?

Why unregister the PHC? I understand that you may want to cancel 
the quite aggressive timestamp refresh work, but why kill the whole
clock... Perhaps ptp_cancel_worker_sync() didn't exist when you wrote
this code?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-06-11  1:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-09 18:40 [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] gve: Add Rx HW timestamping support Harshitha Ramamurthy
2025-06-09 18:40 ` [PATCH net-next v4 1/8] gve: Add device option for nic clock synchronization Harshitha Ramamurthy
2025-06-09 18:40 ` [PATCH net-next v4 2/8] gve: Add adminq command to report nic timestamp Harshitha Ramamurthy
2025-06-09 18:40 ` [PATCH net-next v4 3/8] gve: Add initial PTP device support Harshitha Ramamurthy
2025-06-09 18:40 ` [PATCH net-next v4 4/8] gve: Add adminq lock for queues creation and destruction Harshitha Ramamurthy
2025-06-09 18:40 ` [PATCH net-next v4 5/8] gve: Add support to query the nic clock Harshitha Ramamurthy
2025-06-10  9:47   ` Vadim Fedorenko
2025-06-11  1:25   ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-06-11 23:41     ` Ziwei Xiao
2025-06-09 18:40 ` [PATCH net-next v4 6/8] gve: Add rx hardware timestamp expansion Harshitha Ramamurthy
2025-06-10  9:49   ` Vadim Fedorenko
2025-06-09 18:40 ` [PATCH net-next v4 7/8] gve: Implement ndo_hwtstamp_get/set for RX timestamping Harshitha Ramamurthy
2025-06-09 18:40 ` [PATCH net-next v4 8/8] gve: Advertise support for rx hardware timestamping Harshitha Ramamurthy
2025-06-11  1:23 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-06-11 22:05   ` [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] gve: Add Rx HW timestamping support Ziwei Xiao

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