Le mardi 13 décembre 2011 à 04:00 +0100, Richard Cochran a écrit :
> This commit removes the legacy timecompare code from the igb driver and
> offers a tunable PHC instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <[email protected]>
> ---

> +void igb_systim_to_hwtstamp(struct igb_adapter *adapter,
> +                         struct skb_shared_hwtstamps *hwtstamps,
> +                         u64 systim)
> +{
> +     u64 ns;
> +     unsigned long flags;
> +     unsigned int shift;
> +     int msb_set;
> +
> +     switch (adapter->hw.mac.type) {
> +     case e1000_i350:
> +     case e1000_82580:
> +             shift = OFL_SHIFT_82580;
> +             msb_set = (systim >> 32) & SYSTIMH_MSB_82580;
> +             break;
> +     case e1000_82576:
> +             shift = OFL_SHIFT_82576;
> +             msb_set = (systim >> 32) & SYSTIMH_MSB_82576;
> +             break;
> +     default:
> +             return;
> +     }
> +
> +     spin_lock_irqsave(&adapter->tmreg_lock, flags);
> +
> +     ns = igb_overflow_get(adapter, systim, msb_set, shift);
> +
> +     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&adapter->tmreg_lock, flags);
> +
> +     memset(hwtstamps, 0, sizeof(*hwtstamps));
> +     hwtstamps->hwtstamp = ns_to_ktime(ns);
> +}

Adding a (shared) spinlock on a multiqueue device is source of extra
delay (because of extra cache line trafic), I guess.

It seems current code doesnt need a spinlock, maybe it was a bug ?




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