netdev - Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [iwl-net v2 2/2] igb: Fix missing time sync events

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Message-ID: <87y155wt0d.fsf@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 09:38:58 -0700
From: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@...el.com>
To: Daiwei Li <daiweili@...il.com>
Cc: anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
 intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com,
 jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, kuba@...nel.org, kurt@...utronix.de,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
 richardcochran@...il.com, sasha.neftin@...el.com
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [iwl-net v2 2/2] igb: Fix missing time sync
 events

Daiwei Li <daiweili@...il.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> It appears this change breaks PTP on the 82580 controller, as ptp4l reports:
>
>> timed out while polling for tx timestamp increasing tx_timestamp_timeout or
>> increasing kworker priority may correct this issue, but a driver bug likely
>> causes it
>
> The 82580 controller has a hardware bug in which reading TSICR doesn't clear
> it. See this thread
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CDCB8BE0.1EC2C%25matthew.vick@intel.com/ where the
> bug was confirmed by an Intel employee. Any chance we could add back the ack
> for 82580 specifically? Thanks!

Of course, I'll prepare a patch for that. 

Thanks for digging that one up.


Cheers,
-- 
Vinicius