On 03/16/2016 12:54 PM, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:20:35AM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
>> After changing the 'time_stamping' option in /etc/ptp4l.conf from
>> hardware to software and restarting ptp4l I now see much better
>> behavior.
> Yes, but probably you are disappointed having to forego the HW
> synchronization performance. At least this test shows that your card
> most likely has a HW bug.
If possible it would be really nice to get the HW time-stamping working
on this system. I can move to another system if needed but getting this
working would help me in the short term. (No expansion ports or I'd
just pick up another NIC. On a related note do you or anyone else on
the list know how well the Intel X540 (10Gb NIC using the ixgbe driver)
is supported WRT ptp4l?
>> I believe that I did try the Intel driver but didn't see any success. I
>> found version 3.3.3 of the driver at [3], followed the instructions in
>> the readme. At the time I was running the 3.10.0-327.10.1 kernel. The
>> timestamp (see below) on e1000e.ko matches up with when I performed the
>> build, and the file size is way bigger (6M as compared to ~780K) for the
>> ko on the older 3.10 and the newer 4.5 kernels. I did an rmmod (which
>> hung my SSH session) I then rebooted the machine (which I assume loaded
>> the new driver).
> I wouldn't assume that. Either do rmmod/insmod by hand (on the
> console!) or simply rename or move the original driver before
> rebooting.
OK the machine has got three kernels installed. Here's the e1000e
driver version (as reported by modinfo) for each:
Kernel 3.10.0-327 e1000e version 3.2.5-k
Kernel 3.10.0-327.10.1 e1000e version 3.3.3-NAPI
Kernel 4.5.0-1 e1000e version 3.2.6-k
Under all three kernels with software time stamping things 'work' but
with more jitter than I'd like to see. With hardware time stamping
things don't work. Specifically I see clock jumped forward messages and
an ever increasing master offset.
--
-john
To be or not to be, that is the question
2b || !2b
(0b10)*(0b1100010) || !(0b10)*(0b1100010)
0b11000100 || !0b11000100
0b11000100 || 0b00111011
0b11111111
255, that is the answer.
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