[RFC PATCH v2] ptp: Add vDSO-style vmclock support

Peter Hilber peter.hilber at opensynergy.com
Fri Jul 5 01:12:21 PDT 2024


On 03.07.24 12:40, David Woodhouse wrote:

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> 
> 
> This is what I currently have for 'struct vmclock_abi' that I'd like to
> persuade you to adopt. I need to tweak it some more, for at least the
> following reasons, as well as any more you can see:
> 
>  • size isn't big enough for 64KiB pages
>  • Should be explicitly little-endian
>  • Does it need esterror as well as maxerror?

I have no opinion about this. I can drop esterror if unwanted.

>  • Why is maxerror in picoseconds? It's the only use of that unit
>  • Where do the clock_status values come from? Do they make sense?
>  • Are signed integers OK? (I think so!).

Signed integers would need to be introduced to Virtio, which so far only
uses explicitly unsigned types: u8, le16 etc.



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