From: Vladimir Oltean <olte...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:22:24 +0300
> This is a problem because, at least theoretically, another timestampable > skb might use the same ocelot_port->ts_id before that is incremented. So > the logic of using and incrementing the timestamp id should be atomic > per port. Have you actually observed this race in practice? All transmit calls are serialized by the netdev transmit spinlock. Let's not add locking if it is not actually necessary.