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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support
From: Darren Reed <darren.reed () oracle com>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 17:37:20 -0700
Scott, Is it just the 82580 or others too? If I look in the source code for OpenSolaris, I see: igb_82575.h:#define E1000_SRRCTL_TIMESTAMP 0x40000000igb_82575.h:#define E1000_RXDADV_STAT_TS 0x10000 /* Pkt was time stamped */ igb_82575.h:#define E1000_RXDADV_STAT_TSIP 0x08000 /* timestamp in packet */ igb_82575.h:#define E1000_ADVTXD_MAC_TSTAMP 0x00080000 /* IEEE1588 Timestamp packet */
igb_82575.h:#define E1000_FTQF_1588_TIME_STAMP 0x08000000 I'm not sure how much to read into the filename here, but the macro names suggest that it is also present on other chips, such as the 8254x and 82571 chips. I had no idea this feature was present and now that I do, I'd like to see OpenSolaris support it. I imagine that all of the details will be in the relevant documents that describe the NICs? Darren On 25/05/10 07:58 AM, Mcmillan, Scott A wrote:
Yon, I assume you're asking about commodity NICs, not something like Endace. The NIC I'm most familiar with that supports general hw timestamping is the Intel 82580 Gigabit Ethernet Controller. It can timestamp all RX packets in hardware, but only PTP TX packets. Scott -----Original Message----- From: tcpdump-workers-owner () lists tcpdump org [mailto:tcpdump-workers-owner () lists tcpdump org] On Behalf Of yon ar c'hall Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 4:41 AM To: tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support Hello Scott, By the way, do you know which NICs/network controllers support HW timestamping for all packets (not only the PTP datagrams -- IEEE 1588) ? Yon On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Mcmillan, Scott A< scott.a.mcmillan () intel com> wrote:[My apologies if this double posts. The mail server didn't care for the first submission.] This patch adds the capability to select the packet timestamp source. It also adds support for the PACKET_TIMESTAMP Linux kernel setting to specify the source of packet timestamps. The corresponding Linux kernel patch is being submitted concurrently. A new command line option was added to tcpdump, -j, to specify the source of the packet timestamp. Valid options are 'raw' to use the raw NIC HW timestamp and 'nic' to use the NIC HW timestamp transformed into the system clock basis. If the option is not specified, or OS or the NIC do not support HW timestamping, a software timestamp is used (identical to the current behavior.) [Note: As a RFC, I'm posting this to the mailing list before submitting the patches to SourceForge.] Thanks, Scott - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.- This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
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- [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support Mcmillan, Scott A (May 24)
- Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support yon ar c'hall (May 25)
- Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support Mcmillan, Scott A (May 25)
- Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support Darren Reed (May 25)
- Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support Mcmillan, Scott A (May 26)
- Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support Darren Reed (May 26)
- Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support Mcmillan, Scott A (May 25)
- Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support yon ar c'hall (May 25)
- Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support Mcmillan, Scott A (May 26)
- Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support Aaron Turner (May 26)
- Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support Guy Harris (May 28)
- Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support Mcmillan, Scott A (Jun 01)
- Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2]: hw timestamp support Mcmillan, Scott A (Jun 03)