| 123 | | }}} |
| | 99 | From CN80xx refrence manual: |
| | 100 | |
| | 101 | The CN80XX hardware supports very accurate timestamping in the PTP, BGX, GTI, |
| | 102 | and NIC blocks. This timestamping is suitable for use in IEEE 1588 Precision Time |
| | 103 | Protocol (PTP) or other purposes. |
| | 104 | |
| | 105 | The CN80XX outbound timestamping hardware captures timestamps, but cannot |
| | 106 | insert the timestamp into any outgoing packets. Using IEEE 1588 vernacular, this |
| | 107 | means that the CN80XX outbound timestamping hardware is most useful when |
| | 108 | implementing a two-step clock, not a one-step clock, for PTP event messages sent |
| | 109 | from CN80XX. After the hardware captures the timestamp for the outgoing 1588 |
| | 110 | event message and delivers it to software, the 1588 software running on the CN80XX |
| | 111 | may need to send the timestamp to required recipients in a subsequent 1588 general |
| | 112 | message as a second step. |
| | 113 | |
| | 114 | NIC has no specific mode supporting PTP timestamping, but contains a number of |
| | 115 | features to compensate for the PTP timestamp introduced by BGX when it is |
| | 116 | timestamping. |
| | 117 | When BGX is in the receive-timestamp mode, NIC receives the timestamp plus |
| | 118 | packet from the BGX. NIC packet parsing is able to skip over the received |
| | 119 | timestamps (NIC_PF_PKIND(0..15)_CFG[HDR_SL]). NIC MAXERR, MINERR, and |
| | 120 | LENERR checks can compensate for the additional header, since the MAXERR and |
| | 121 | MINERR byte counts are programmable, and the programmed value can easily be |
| | 122 | increased by 8. The LENERR check already compensates based on the skip value. |
| | 123 | NIC makes the timestamp available for software with every packet. The timestamp |
| | 124 | can be present in the completion-queue entry and/or the receive buffer in L2/DRAM |
| | 125 | for software, depending on NIC configuration. The software will likely use the |
| | 126 | timestamp when IEEE 1588 event messages arrive. For other packets, the software |
| | 127 | may choose to discard or ignore the timestamp that is present with every packet in |
| | 128 | this mode. |
| | 129 | |
| | 130 | [[Image(cavium-octeon-tx-block-diagram.jpg, width=600)]] |