Hi Ferruh,
Sorry for my delay reply because of taking a look at all PMDs
implementation.
在 2023/9/16 1:46, Ferruh Yigit 写道:
On 8/17/2023 9:42 AM, Huisong Li wrote:
From the first version of ptpclient, it seems that this example assume that
the PMDs support the PTP feature and enable PTP by default. Please see
commit ab129e9065a5 ("examples/ptpclient: add minimal PTP client")
which are introduced in 2015.
And two years later, Rx HW timestamp offload was introduced to enable or
disable PTP feature in HW via rte_eth_rxmode. Please see
commit 42ffc45aa340 ("ethdev: add Rx HW timestamp capability").
Hi Huisong,
As far as I know this offload is not for PTP.
PTP and TIMESTAMP are different.
If TIMESTAMP offload cannot stand for PTP, we may need to add one new
offlaod for PTP.
PTP is a protocol for time sync.
Rx TIMESTAMP offload is to ask HW to add timestamp to mbuf.
Yes.
But a lot of PMDs actually depand on HW to report Rx timestamp releated
information
because of reading Rx timestamp of PTP SYNC packet in read_rx_timestamp
API.
And then about four years later, ptpclient enable Rx timestamp offload
because some PMDs require this offload to enable. Please see
commit 7a04a4f67dca ("examples/ptpclient: enable Rx timestamp offload").
dpaa2 seems using TIMESTAMP offload and PTP together, hence they updated
ptpclient sample to set TIMESTAMP offload.
There are many PMDs doing like this, such as ice, igc, cnxk, dpaa2, hns3
and so on.
We need to clarify dpaa2 usage.
By all the records, this is more like a process of perfecting PTP feature.
Not all network adaptors support PTP feature. So adding the check for PTP
capability in ethdev layer is necessary.
Nope, as PTP (IEEE1588/802.1AS) implemented as dev_ops, and ops already
checked, so no additional check is needed.
But only having dev_ops about PTP doesn't satisfy the use of this feature.
For example,
there are serveal network ports belonged to a driver on one OS, and only
one port support PTP function.
So driver needs one *PTP* offload.
We just need to clarify TIMESTAMP offload and PTP usage and find out
what is causing confusion.
Yes it is a little bit confusion.
There are two kinds of implementation:
A： ixgbe and txgbe (it seems that their HW is similar) don't need
TIMESTAMP offload，and only use dev_ops to finish PTP feature.
B: saving "Rx timestamp related information" from Rx description when
receive PTP SYNC packet and
report it in read_rx_timestamp API.
For case B, most of driver use TIMESTAMP offload to decide if driver
save "Rx timestamp related information.
What do you think about this, Ferruh?
I would be great if you can help on clarification, and update
documentation or API comments, or what ever required, for this.
ok
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v3:
- patch [2/3] for hns3 has been applied and so remove it.
- ops pointer check is closer to usage.
Huisong Li (2):
examples/ptpclient: add the check for PTP capability
ethdev: add the check for the valitity of timestamp offload
examples/ptpclient/ptpclient.c | 5 +++
lib/ethdev/rte_ethdev.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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