Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 7/9] net: dsa: microchip: ksz9477: add hardware time stamping support

[Christian Eggers]

Hi Vladimir,

On Thursday, 22 October 2020, 12:50:14 CEST, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> If the hardware supports p2p one-step, it subtracts the ingress time
> stamp value from the Pdelay_Request correction field.  The user space
> software stack then simply copies the correction field into the
> Pdelay_Response, and on transmission the hardware adds the egress time
> stamp into the correction field.
> 
> So we were correct about the behavior, just not about the target
> hardware.
> 
> So, that's just not how this hardware works. What do you recommend?
> Keeping a FIFO of Pdelay_Req RX timestamps, and matching them to
> Pdelay_Resp messages on TX, all of that contained within tag_ksz.c?

after applying the RX timestamp correctly to the correction field (shifting 
the nanoseconds by 16), it seems that "moving" the timestamp back to the tail 
tag on TX is not required anymore. Keeping the RX timestamp simply in
the correction field (negative value), works fine now. So this halves the 
effort in the tag_ksz driver.

Best regards
Christian