On 2/17/2020 3:06 PM, Harman Kalra wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 02:54:13PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 2/17/2020 2:35 PM, Harman Kalra wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 01:21:13PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
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>>>> On 2/15/2020 8:35 AM, Harman Kalra wrote:
>>>>> PTP functionality has been broken after a change in kernel
>>>>> where enum npc_kpu_lc_ltype is change to allow adjustment of
>>>>> LTYPE_MASK to detect all types of IP headers.
>>>>> Syncing the required changes in DPDK to fix the issue.
>>>>
>>>> Hi Harman,
>>>>
>>>> Can you please provide references for,
>>>> - What is the kernel commit causing the mentioned change?
>>>> - After this change which version of the kernel supported by the PMD?
>>>
>>> Hi Ferruh
>>> The kernel change I was refering to was in our internel kernel repo
>>> and those kernel changes have not been upstreamed yet. Currently its part
>>> of our marvell SDK version SDK-10.3.1.x.
>>
>> Got it, what is the dependency of the PMD to the Linux kernel? And does the
>> PMD
>> works with upstream kernels?
>
> Yes, for basic functionality PMD works fine with upstreamed kernel but for
> supporting some advanced features like PTP, kernel changes are yet to be
> upstreamed. Our kernel driver for octeontx2 PMD:
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af
> Kernel upstreaming activity is not in same pace as DPDK.
Is the marvell SDK code in a public repo? If so can you provide the details of
the kernel changes in that repo? It is good to have some reference on the
matter.
>
> Thanks
> Harman
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Harman
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Fixes: b5dc3140448e ("net/octeontx2: support base PTP")
>>>>> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Harman Kalra <hka...@marvell.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> drivers/common/octeontx2/hw/otx2_npc.h | 4 ++--
>>>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/common/octeontx2/hw/otx2_npc.h
>>>>> b/drivers/common/octeontx2/hw/otx2_npc.h
>>>>> index a0536e0ae..3dfc137a3 100644
>>>>> --- a/drivers/common/octeontx2/hw/otx2_npc.h
>>>>> +++ b/drivers/common/octeontx2/hw/otx2_npc.h
>>>>> @@ -201,7 +201,8 @@ enum npc_kpu_lb_ltype {
>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>> enum npc_kpu_lc_ltype {
>>>>> - NPC_LT_LC_IP = 1,
>>>>> + NPC_LT_LC_PTP = 1,
>>>>> + NPC_LT_LC_IP,
>>>>> NPC_LT_LC_IP_OPT,
>>>>> NPC_LT_LC_IP6,
>>>>> NPC_LT_LC_IP6_EXT,
>>>>> @@ -209,7 +210,6 @@ enum npc_kpu_lc_ltype {
>>>>> NPC_LT_LC_RARP,
>>>>> NPC_LT_LC_MPLS,
>>>>> NPC_LT_LC_NSH,
>>>>> - NPC_LT_LC_PTP,
>>>>> NPC_LT_LC_FCOE,
>>>>> };
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
