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From:   Harini Katakam <harinik@xilinx.com>
Date:   Wed, 18 May 2022 16:01:39 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: macb: Fix PTP one step sync support
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc:     Harini Katakam <harini.katakam@xilinx.com>,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
        David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
        Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@microchip.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
        netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>,
        Radhey Shyam Pandey <radhey.shyam.pandey@xilinx.com>
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Hi Jakub,

<snip>
>
> > > > @@ -1158,13 +1192,14 @@ static int macb_tx_complete(struct macb_queue *queue, int budget)
> > > >
> > > >                       /* First, update TX stats if needed */
> > > >                       if (skb) {
> > > > -                             if (unlikely(skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags &
> > > > -                                          SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP) &&
> > > > -                                 gem_ptp_do_txstamp(queue, skb, desc) == 0) {
> > > > -                                     /* skb now belongs to timestamp buffer
> > > > -                                      * and will be removed later
> > > > -                                      */
> > > > -                                     tx_skb->skb = NULL;
> > > > +                             if (unlikely(skb_shinfo(skb)->tx_flags & SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP) &&
> > >
> > > ptp_oss already checks if HW_TSTAMP is set.
> >
> > The check for SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP is required here universally and not
> > just inside ptp_oss.
> > I will remove the redundant check in ptp_oss instead. Please see the
> > reply below.
>
> But then you need to add this check in the padding/fcs call site and
> the place where NOCRC is set. If you wrap the check for SKBTX_HW_TSTAMP
> in the helper with likely() and remove the inline - will the compiler
> not split the function and inline just that check? And leave the rest
> as a functionname.part... thing?

Yes, I checked the disassembly and this is what's happening. This
should be good for
the non-PTP packet (going to "likely" branch) and the rest of ptp_oss
is evaluated for
PTP packets.

Regards,
Harini