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Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 09:29:59 -0400
From: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH bpf-next v7 1/3] net: Rename mono_delivery_time to
 tstamp_type for scalabilty
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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.
> 
> As we are renaming the mono_delivery_time to tstamp_type, it makes
> sense to start assigning tstamp_type based on enum defined
> in this commit.
> 
> Earlier we used bool arg flag to check if the tstamp is mono in
> function skb_set_delivery_time, Now the signature of the functions
> accepts tstamp_type to distinguish between mono and real time.
> 
> Also skb_set_delivery_type_by_clockid is a new function which accepts
> clockid to determine the tstamp_type.
> 
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>