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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH spi for-5.4 0/5] Deterministic SPI latency with NXP DSPI
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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:05:21 -0700
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 05:58:49PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> I don't think I understand the problem here.

On the contrary, I do.

> You'd have something like this:
> 
> Master (DSA master port)         Slave (switch CPU port)
> 
>     |                            |         Tstamps known
>     |                            |         to slave
>     |       Local_sync_req       |
>  t1 |------\                     |         t1
>     |       \-----\              |
>     |              \-----\       |
>     |                     \----->| t2      t1, t2
>     |                            |
>     |     Local_sync_resp /------| t3      t1, t2, t3
>     |              /-----/       |
>     |       /-----/              |
>  t4 |<-----/                     |         t1, t2, t3, t4
>     |                            |
>     |                            |
>     v           time             v

And who generates Local_sync_resp?

Also, what sort of frame is it?  PTP has no Sync request or response.

> But you don't mean a TX timestamp at the egress of swp4 here, do you?

Yes, I do.
 
> Why would that matter?

Because in order to synchronize to an external GM, you need to measure
two things:

1. the (unchanging) delay from MAC to MAC
2. the (per-packet) switch residence time

Thanks,
Richard