On Tuesday, July 8, 2025 10:18 AM, Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> wrote: >On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 02:06:11 +0000 Song, Yoong Siang wrote: >>> Why would the driver need to move it back? >>> On XDP_PASS an skb is constructed, so the metadata should >>> be transferred to the skb. There is no need to copy it back >>> as a prepend. >> >> I said so because I thought need to put back the timestamp >> as prepend and then point skb_shared_hwtstamps.netdev_data to it >> to support the ndo_get_tstamp(). > >No need, the timestamps are set in shared info directly. >There are multiple drivers which use the metadata prepend >method, so I'm pretty sure it should work.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I'll proceed with updating the IGC driver and conduct tests to ensure everything works as expected.
