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Commit 790835fc authored by Muhammad Husaini Zulkifli's avatar Muhammad Husaini Zulkifli Committed by Tony Nguyen
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igc: Correct the launchtime offset



The launchtime offset should be corrected according to sections 7.5.2.6
Transmit Scheduling Latency of the Intel Ethernet I225/I226 Software
User Manual.

Software can compensate the latency between the transmission scheduling
and the time that packet is transmitted to the network by setting this
GTxOffset register. Without setting this register, there may be a
significant delay between the packet scheduling and the network point.

This patch helps to reduce the latency for each of the link speed.

Before:

10Mbps   : 11000 - 13800 nanosecond
100Mbps  : 1300 - 1700 nanosecond
1000Mbps : 190 - 600 nanosecond
2500Mbps : 1400 - 1700 nanosecond

After:

10Mbps   : less than 750 nanosecond
100Mbps  : less than 192 nanosecond
1000Mbps : less than 128 nanosecond
2500Mbps : less than 128 nanosecond

Test Setup:

Talker : Use l2_tai.c to generate the launchtime into packet payload.
Listener: Use timedump.c to compute the delta between packet arrival and
LaunchTime packet payload.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMuhammad Husaini Zulkifli <muhammad.husaini.zulkifli@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSasha Neftin <sasha.neftin@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Tested-by: default avatarNaama Meir <naamax.meir@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
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