net: Re-use and set mono_delivery_time bit for userspace tstamp packets
authorAbhishek Chauhan <quic_abchauha@quicinc.com>
Fri, 1 Mar 2024 20:13:48 +0000 (12:13 -0800)
committerPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Tue, 5 Mar 2024 12:41:16 +0000 (13:41 +0100)
commit885c36e59f46375c138de18ff1692f18eff67b7f
tree6ddda3a576714ae664f1afb18d5e8eaba100b302
parentd35c9659e56edd9e629b54da8ceca062517d3d6c
net: Re-use and set mono_delivery_time bit for userspace tstamp packets

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@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240301201348.2815102-1-quic_abchauha@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
include/linux/skbuff.h
net/ipv4/ip_output.c
net/ipv4/raw.c
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
net/ipv6/raw.c
net/packet/af_packet.c