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Commit c4680c97 authored by Radu Bulie's avatar Radu Bulie Committed by David S. Miller
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dpaa2-eth: Update SINGLE_STEP register access



DPAA2 MAC supports 1588 one step timestamping.
If this option is enabled then for each transmitted PTP event packet,
the 1588 SINGLE_STEP register is accessed to modify the following fields:

-offset of the correction field inside the PTP packet
-UDP checksum update bit,  in case the PTP event packet has
 UDP encapsulation

These values can change any time, because there may be multiple
PTP clients connected, that receive various 1588 frame types:
- L2 only frame
- UDP / Ipv4
- UDP / Ipv6
- other

The current implementation uses dpni_set_single_step_cfg to update the
SINLGE_STEP register.
Using an MC command  on the Tx datapath for each transmitted 1588 message
introduces high delays, leading to low throughput and consequently to a
small number of supported PTP clients. Besides these, the nanosecond
correction field from the PTP packet will contain the high delay from the
driver which together with the originTimestamp will render timestamp
values that are unacceptable in a GM clock implementation.

This patch updates the Tx datapath for 1588 messages when single step
timestamp is enabled and provides direct access to SINGLE_STEP register,
eliminating the  overhead caused by the dpni_set_single_step_cfg
MC command. MC version >= 10.32 implements this functionality.
If the MC version does not have support for returning the
single step register base address, the driver will use
dpni_set_single_step_cfg command for updates operations.

All the delay introduced by dpni_set_single_step_cfg
function will be eliminated (if MC version has support for returning the
base address of the single step register), improving the egress driver
performance for PTP packets when single step timestamping is enabled.

Before these changes the maximum throughput for 1588 messages with
single step hardware timestamp enabled was around 2000pps.
After the updates the throughput increased up to 32.82 Mbps / 46631.02 pps.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRadu Bulie <radu-andrei.bulie@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 9572594e
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