[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/pcap: support hardware Tx timestamps

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Wed Jun 17 10:16:51 CEST 2020


On 6/10/2020 8:39 PM, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> When hardware timestamping is enabled on Rx path, system time should
> no longer be used to calculate the timestamps when dumping packets.
> 
> Instead, use the value stored by the driver in mbuf->timestamp
> and assume it is already converted to nanoseconds (otherwise the
> application may edit the packet headers itself afterwards).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Keroulas <patrick.keroulas at radio-canada.ca>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst |  1 +
>  drivers/net/pcap/rte_eth_pcap.c        | 30 +++++++++++++++-----------
>  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
> index 7a67c960c..cedceaf9d 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
> @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ New Features
>    Updated PCAP driver with new features and improvements, including:
>  
>    * Support software Tx nanosecond timestamps precision.
> +  * Support hardware Tx timestamps.
>  
>  * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/net/pcap/rte_eth_pcap.c b/drivers/net/pcap/rte_eth_pcap.c
> index 13a3d0ac7..3d80b699b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/pcap/rte_eth_pcap.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/pcap/rte_eth_pcap.c
> @@ -290,19 +290,23 @@ eth_null_rx(void *queue __rte_unused,
>  #define NSEC_PER_SEC	1000000000L
>  
>  static inline void
> -calculate_timestamp(struct timeval *ts) {
> -	uint64_t cycles;
> -	struct timeval cur_time;
> +calculate_timestamp(const struct rte_mbuf *mbuf, struct timeval *ts) {
> +	if (mbuf->ol_flags & PKT_RX_TIMESTAMP) {
> +		ts->tv_sec = mbuf->timestamp / NSEC_PER_SEC;
> +		ts->tv_usec = mbuf->timestamp % NSEC_PER_SEC;

Hi Vivien,

No objection from pcap PMD point of view.

But should we have a Tx mbuf flag, 'PKT_TX_TIMESTAMP', for applications to
request drivers to use the timestamp field on Tx path? Not sure if there can be
any problem on using Rx flag on both direction?

Also the metric is not defined for the 'mbuf->timestamp', it doesn't need to be
nanoseconds, not sure if it is correct to assume it is. Or should we define a
metric for timestamp on the Tx path?

cc'ed Oliver, I think he can comment better on above two questions.

Thanks,
ferruh



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