Re: [PATCH net-next v4] net: Re-use and set mono_delivery_time bit for userspace tstamp packets

From: Willem de Bruijn
Date: Fri Mar 01 2024 - 17:23:27 EST


Abhishek Chauhan wrote:
> Bridge driver today has no support to forward the userspace timestamp
> packets and ends up resetting the timestamp. ETF qdisc checks the
> packet coming from userspace and encounters to be 0 thereby dropping
> time sensitive packets. These changes will allow userspace timestamps
> packets to be forwarded from the bridge to NIC drivers.
>
> Setting the same bit (mono_delivery_time) to avoid dropping of
> userspace tstamp packets in the forwarding path.
>
> Existing functionality of mono_delivery_time remains unaltered here,
> instead just extended with userspace tstamp support for bridge
> forwarding path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Abhishek Chauhan <quic_abchauha@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>