Re: [Linuxptp-devel] strangeness

[Harini Katakam <harinik@xilinx.com>]

+netdev

Hi Paul,
On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 12:29 AM Richard Cochran
<richardcochran@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 12:33:26PM -0500, Paul Thomas wrote:
> > Yes changing it to TSTAMP_ALL_PTP_FRAMES instead of TSTAMP_ALL_FRAMES
> > does seem to fix the ssh issue. My worry is that there is still a bug
> > somewhere in the network stack that this is just masking.

Ok thanks.
One place to check in the driver will be:
if (gem_ptp_do_txstamp(queue, skb, desc) == 0) {
/* skb now belongs to timestamp buffer
* and will be removed later
*/
tx_skb->skb = NULL;
}
When all TX packets are timestamped, the skb always belongs to the
timestamp buffer.

>
> Or the HW isn't sending the frames in the first place.
>
> Check that first!

To check this, the statistics registers in MAC will be one way.
But if there is no TX completion interrupt, then I wouldn't expect
these statistics to increase either. The used bit status in BD dump
might be of more use.

I will also try to reproduce (with TX timestamp ALL) and see if any of
the above gives some clue.

Regards,
Harini