Re: [net-next 07/12] ixgbe: Enable timesync clock-out feature for PPS support on X540

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:08:44PM +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote:

Oops stupid mail program sent that on accident. Anyways: I think you might be
right, Richard. We don't read those timestamp values unless the stat err bit
for timestamps is set on the descriptor. But I am not sure what happens when the
tjmestamped packet is dropped off the end of the ring. What would you propose
here? How can we detect if this timestamp doesn't match the packet? I can look
into using the extra hardware features for matching timestamps. That might be
a more useful, in that it would help prevent this case.

[ Talking about the Rx time stamping locking from other patch... ]

The IGB provides some PTP event packet identification fields (seqNum,
etc) just for the purpose of matching time stamps to packets. Some of
the other PHC drivers (ixp4xx, dp83640) have code that does the
matching.

HTH,
Richard