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Currently the driver uses the PTP kthread to process handling and discarding of stale Tx timestamp requests. The function ice_ptp_tx_tstamp_cleanup is used for this. A separate thread creates complications for the driver as we now have both the main Tx timestamp processing IRQ checking timestamps as well as the kthread. Rather than using the kthread to handle this, simply check for stale timestamps within the ice_ptp_tx_tstamp function. This function must already process the timestamps anyways. If a Tx timestamp has been waiting for 2 seconds we simply clear the bit and discard the SKB. This avoids the complication of having separate threads polling, reducing overall CPU work. Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Tested-by: Gurucharan G <gurucharanx.g@intel.com> (A Contingent worker at Intel) Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Linux kernel
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