On Tue Aug 13 2024, Daiwei Li wrote:
> 82580 NICs have a hardware bug that makes it
> necessary to write into the TSICR (TimeSync Interrupt Cause) register
> to clear it:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CDCB8BE0.1EC2C%25matthew.vick@intel.com/
>
> Add a conditional so only for 82580 we write into the TSICR register,
> so we don't risk losing events for other models.
>
> Without this change, when running ptp4l with an Intel 82580 card,
> I get the following output:
>
>> 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
>
> This goes away with this change.
>
> This (partially) reverts commit ee14cc9ea19b ("igb: Fix missing time sync events").
>
> Fixes: ee14cc9ea19b ("igb: Fix missing time sync events")
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/intel-wired-lan/CAN0jFd1kO0MMtOh8N2Ztxn6f7vvDKp2h507sMryobkBKe=xk=w@mail.gmail.com/
> Tested-by: Daiwei Li <daiweili@google.com>
> Suggested-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daiwei Li <daiweili@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>