On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 10:54 AM Willem de Bruijn
[off-list ref] wrote:

Jason Xing wrote:

quoted

From: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>

introduce a new flag SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_RX_FILTER in the receive
path. User can set it with SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE to filter
out rx software timestamp report, especially after a process turns on
netstamp_needed_key which can time stamp every incoming skb.

Previously, we found out if an application starts first which turns on
netstamp_needed_key, then another one only passing SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE
could also get rx timestamp. Now we handle this case by introducing this
new flag without breaking users.

Quoting Willem to explain why we need the flag:
"why a process would want to request software timestamp reporting, but
not receive software timestamp generation. The only use I see is when
the application does request
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE | SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE."

Similarly, this new flag could also be used for hardware case where we
can set it with SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE, then we won't receive
hardware receive timestamp.

Another thing about errqueue in this patch I have a few words to say:
In this case, we need to handle the egress path carefully, or else
reporting the tx timestamp will fail. Egress path and ingress path will
finally call sock_recv_timestamp(). We have to distinguish them.
Errqueue is a good indicator to reflect the flow direction.

Suggested-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Xing <kernelxing@tencent.com>

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

I really only suggested making this a new flag, not the main idea of
filtering.

You provided a good alternative solution, so I was trying to give
enough credit for your help and guidance :)

quoted

+SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_RX_FILTER:
+  Filter out spurious receive timestamps: report a receive timestamp
+  only if the matching timestamp generation flag is enabled.
+
+  Receive timestamps are generated early in the ingress path, before a
+  packet's destination socket is known. If any socket enables receive
+  timestamps, packets for all socket will receive timestamped packets.

nit: s/packets for all socket/all sockets/

My error in my suggestion.

Not important enough to respin.

Got it.

Thanks,
Jason