Don many thanks for the update. IEEE 1588 support is definitively a good thing to have as it's bridging the gap with respect to FPGA-based adapters. Looking forward testing the driver as soon as you will release it.
Regards Luca On Jul 12, 2011, at 3:13 AM, Skidmore, Donald C wrote: > Hey Luca, > > I don't know of a way to detect packet order across ports short of time sync > (IEEE 1588). We don't currently support time sync in ixgbe although there is > hardware support for it. We, however, are working on it. Sadly it won't be > out in time for our next release which should be later this week. But my > plan is to have it included in the following release ~8 weeks later. > > Thanks, > -Don Skidmore <[email protected]> > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Luca Deri [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 2:16 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [E1000-devel] Packet ordering on 82599 >> >> Dear all >> On a dual port 82599 I would like to order incoming packets based on the >> order they arrived. Precise timestamp is not compulsory, just the order >> is important. Reading the datasheet I have not been able to find a way >> to detect the packet order across ports of incoming packets. Is there >> something you could suggest me to address this problem? >> >> Thanks in advance, Luca >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------ >> All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously >> valuable. >> Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, >> security >> threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes >> sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 >> _______________________________________________ >> E1000-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel >> To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit >> http://communities.intel.com/community/wired --- If you can not measure it, you can not improve it - Lord Kelvin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
