[PATCH v6 net-next 3/4] net: ena: Add PHC documentation
From: David Arinzon <darinzon@amazon.com>
Date: 2025-02-06 14:16:27
Subsystem:
amazon ethernet drivers, documentation, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Arthur Kiyanovski, David Arinzon, Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Provide the relevant information and guidelines about the feature support in the ENA driver. Signed-off-by: Amit Bernstein <redacted> Signed-off-by: David Arinzon <darinzon@amazon.com> --- .../device_drivers/ethernet/amazon/ena.rst | 78 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 78 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/amazon/ena.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/amazon/ena.rst
index 4561e8ab..12b13da0 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/amazon/ena.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/amazon/ena.rst@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ ena_netdev.[ch] Main Linux kernel driver. ena_ethtool.c ethtool callbacks. ena_xdp.[ch] XDP files ena_pci_id_tbl.h Supported device IDs. +ena_phc.[ch] PTP hardware clock infrastructure (see `PHC`_ for more info) ================= ====================================================== Management Interface:
@@ -221,6 +222,83 @@ descriptor it was received on would be recycled. When a packet smaller than RX copybreak bytes is received, it is copied into a new memory buffer and the RX descriptor is returned to HW. +.. _`PHC`: + +PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) +======================== +.. _`ptp-userspace-api`: https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/ptp.html#ptp-hardware-clock-user-space-api +.. _`testptp`: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/tools/testing/selftests/ptp/testptp.c + +ENA Linux driver supports PTP hardware clock providing timestamp reference to achieve nanosecond resolution. + +**PHC support** + +PHC depends on the PTP module, which needs to be either loaded as a module or compiled into the kernel. + +Verify if the PTP module is present: + +.. code-block:: shell + + grep -w '^CONFIG_PTP_1588_CLOCK=[ym]' /boot/config-`uname -r` + +- If no output is provided, the ENA driver cannot be loaded with PHC support. + +- ``CONFIG_PTP_1588_CLOCK=y``: the PTP module is already compiled and loaded inside the kernel binary file. + +- ``CONFIG_PTP_1588_CLOCK=m``: the PTP module needs to be loaded prior to loading the ENA driver: + +Load PTP module: + +.. code-block:: shell + + sudo modprobe ptp + +All available PTP clock sources can be tracked here: + +.. code-block:: shell + + ls /sys/class/ptp + +PHC support and capabilities can be verified using ethtool: + +.. code-block:: shell + + ethtool -T <interface> + +**PHC timestamp** + +To retrieve PHC timestamp, use `ptp-userspace-api`_, usage example using `testptp`_: + +.. code-block:: shell + + testptp -d /dev/ptp$(ethtool -T <interface> | awk '/PTP Hardware Clock:/ {print $NF}') -k 1 + +PHC get time requests should be within reasonable bounds, +avoid excessive utilization to ensure optimal performance and efficiency. +The ENA device restricts the frequency of PHC get time requests to a maximum +of 125 requests per second. If this limit is surpassed, the get time request +will fail, leading to an increment in the phc_err statistic. + +**PHC statistics** + +PHC can be monitored using :code:`ethtool -S` counters: + +================= ====================================================== +**phc_cnt** Number of successful retrieved timestamps (below expire timeout). +**phc_exp** Number of expired retrieved timestamps (above expire timeout). +**phc_skp** Number of skipped get time attempts (during block period). +**phc_err** Number of failed get time attempts (entering into block state). +================= ====================================================== + +PHC timeouts: + +================= ====================================================== +**expire** Max time for a valid timestamp retrieval, passing this threshold will fail + the get time request and block new requests until block timeout. +**block** Blocking period starts once get time request expires or fails, all get time + requests during block period will be skipped. +================= ====================================================== + Statistics ==========
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