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[1/4] net: add driver hook for tx time stamping.

Message ID 4398135dc3c471239cc8f349c2c3a85cd87ac017.1279391885.git.richard.cochran@omicron.at
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Richard Cochran July 17, 2010, 6:48 p.m. UTC 
This patch adds a hook for transmit time stamps. The transmit hook
allows a software fallback for transmit time stamps, for MACs
lacking time stamping hardware. Using the hook will still require
adding an inline function call to each MAC driver.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
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 include/linux/skbuff.h |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
index ac74ee0..a1b0400 100644
--- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
+++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
@@ -1947,6 +1947,27 @@  static inline ktime_t net_invalid_timestamp(void)
 extern void skb_tstamp_tx(struct sk_buff *orig_skb,
 			struct skb_shared_hwtstamps *hwtstamps);
 
+static inline void sw_tx_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	union skb_shared_tx *shtx = skb_tx(skb);
+	if (shtx->software && !shtx->in_progress)
+		skb_tstamp_tx(skb, NULL);
+}
+
+/**
+ * skb_tx_timestamp() - Driver hook for transmit timestamping
+ *
+ * Ethernet MAC Drivers should call this function in their hard_xmit()
+ * function as soon as possible after giving the sk_buff to the MAC
+ * hardware, but before freeing the sk_buff.
+ *
+ * @skb: A socket buffer.
+ */
+static inline void skb_tx_timestamp(struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	sw_tx_timestamp(skb);
+}
+
 extern __sum16 __skb_checksum_complete_head(struct sk_buff *skb, int len);
 extern __sum16 __skb_checksum_complete(struct sk_buff *skb);