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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: chetan loke <loke.chetan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net"
	<e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	"Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@intel.com>,
	"john.stultz@linaro.org" <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net V4 2/2] igb: offer a PTP Hardware Clock instead of the timecompare method
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:27:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120326152730.GA10212@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAsGZS556o4iXtsWBzpiXxmv4isoZzw_h+RNv5eBMTGOsK905w@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:07:40AM -0400, chetan loke wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Richard Cochran
> <richardcochran@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 03:39:08PM -0400, chetan loke wrote:
> >>
> >> So, how is it working today? Because we could have tx and rx
> >> completions on different CPUs. Is it not possible to have the
> >> following race today - between timecompare_update->timecompare_offset
> >> -> timecounter_readdelta of say Rx and timecounter_cyc2time from Tx?
> >
> > I works (in the igb) because of the spinlock. You know, that thing
> > that you are so against using.
> >
> 
> I meant, was there a lock before the PHC functionality in igb?

There was no lock, and yes, it was a bug.

> >> How about rate limiting at the PHC class driver level? And then it
> >> will work across the board for all the adapters at the device level.
> >
> > No, don't go there. Enough bikeshedding already. If you have a serious
> 
> can a user without root privileges use get/adj/set time ioctls for the
> PHC functionality?

Depends on how you set the character device node permissions.

Thanks,
Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-26 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <D3F292ADF945FB49B35E96C94C2061B916484EC4@nsmail.netscout.com>
2012-03-15 17:18 ` [PATCH net V4 2/2] igb: offer a PTP Hardware Clock instead of the timecompare method chetan loke
2012-03-16  6:55   ` Richard Cochran
2012-03-21 15:00     ` chetan loke
2012-03-21 16:08       ` Richard Cochran
2012-03-21 17:02         ` chetan loke
2012-03-22  7:00           ` Richard Cochran
2012-03-21 17:06         ` Keller, Jacob E
2012-03-22  7:09           ` Richard Cochran
2012-03-22 21:59             ` Keller, Jacob E
2012-03-23  6:05               ` Richard Cochran
2012-03-21 17:00       ` Richard Cochran
2012-03-21 17:09         ` Keller, Jacob E
2012-03-21 21:50           ` chetan loke
2012-03-22  6:41             ` Richard Cochran
2012-03-22 23:13               ` chetan loke
2012-03-23  5:59                 ` Richard Cochran
2012-03-23 18:27                 ` Keller, Jacob E
2012-03-23 19:39                   ` chetan loke
2012-03-24  6:51                     ` Richard Cochran
2012-03-26 15:07                       ` chetan loke
2012-03-26 15:27                         ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2012-03-26 17:11                           ` chetan loke
2012-03-26 18:56                             ` Keller, Jacob E
2012-03-26 19:32                               ` chetan loke
2012-03-26 20:46                                 ` Keller, Jacob E
2012-03-27 18:05                                   ` Richard Cochran
2012-03-27 18:29                                     ` Keller, Jacob E
2012-03-27 18:43                                       ` chetan loke
2012-03-27 18:51                                         ` chetan loke
2012-03-27 20:58                                           ` Keller, Jacob E
2012-03-27 21:55                                             ` chetan loke
2012-03-29 23:08                                               ` Keller, Jacob E
2012-03-30 15:17                                                 ` chetan loke
2012-03-27 15:33                             ` Richard Cochran
2012-03-27 18:39                               ` chetan loke
2012-03-26 20:51                       ` Keller, Jacob E
2012-03-27 18:33                         ` Richard Cochran
2012-01-21 16:03 [PATCH net V4 0/2] igb: ptp hardware clock Richard Cochran
2012-01-21 16:03 ` [PATCH net V4 2/2] igb: offer a PTP Hardware Clock instead of the timecompare method Richard Cochran

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