[PATCH v2 2/3] net/ice: fix PTP clock corruption with TxPP
    Soumyadeep Hore 
    soumyadeep.hore at intel.com
       
    Thu Oct 30 18:33:03 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.
Earlier when timesync was enabled in tx queue setup, on stopping ports
time will reset back to 0. Currently after every port restart PHC clock
will be set to current system CLOCK_REALTIME.
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 fd0b3a7532..752e52b8cd 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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