[PATCH v1 2/3] net/ice: fix PTP clock corruption with TxPP

Soumyadeep Hore soumyadeep.hore at intel.com
Mon Oct 27 19:28:00 CET 2025


On enabling TxPP PTP clock was getting corrupted as timesync was enabled
on during setup. Currently timesync will be enabled during start of tx
queue, hence enabling PHC clock to get updated on starting and stopping
of ports.

Fixes: 0b6ff09a1f19 ("net/intel: support Tx packet pacing for E830")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Soumyadeep Hore <soumyadeep.hore at intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_rxtx.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_rxtx.c b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_rxtx.c
index 33d82cd46d..7473d45260 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_rxtx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_rxtx.c
@@ -908,6 +908,7 @@ ice_tx_queue_start(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint16_t tx_queue_id)
 			rte_free(txq_elem);
 			return err;
 		}
+		dev->dev_ops->timesync_enable(dev);
 	} else {
 		txq->qtx_tail = hw->hw_addr + QTX_COMM_DBELL(txq->reg_idx);
 
@@ -1671,7 +1672,6 @@ ice_tx_queue_setup(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 			PMD_INIT_LOG(ERR, "Cannot register Tx mbuf field/flag for timestamp");
 			return -EINVAL;
 		}
-		dev->dev_ops->timesync_enable(dev);
 
 		txq->tsq->nb_ts_desc = ice_calc_ts_ring_count(ICE_VSI_TO_HW(vsi), txq->nb_tx_desc);
 		ring_size = sizeof(struct ice_ts_desc) * txq->tsq->nb_ts_desc;
-- 
2.47.1



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