Re: [Linuxptp-devel] Hard- and or software timestamping in Linux

2015-02-17 Thread Axel Holzinger
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:31: PM +0100, Richard Cochran wrote: snip This is done differently in every driver, depending on the hardware. Some hardware provides the time stamp in band, for example in the frame's buffer descriptor or in the frame data. In this case, the association is

Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/6] Improve accuracy with software timestamping

2015-02-17 Thread Richard Cochran
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:31:44PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: The delay message doesn't have to be delayed for the sample to have a smaller weight. The delay calculated from the four timestamps will be larger than the average when the sync message is delayed, the delay message is delayed,

Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH RFC 4/6] clock: set sample weight.

2015-02-17 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 08:48:15PM +0100, Richard Cochran wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 01:56:16PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: + if (sync_delay_rate = 0 servo_weight_samples(c-servo)) { + /* Get new sample delay with updated t1 and t2 */ + sample_delay =

Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/6] Improve accuracy with software timestamping

2015-02-17 Thread Keller, Jacob E
On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 20:25 +0100, Richard Cochran wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:31:44PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: The delay message doesn't have to be delayed for the sample to have a smaller weight. The delay calculated from the four timestamps will be larger than the average

Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/6] Improve accuracy with software timestamping

2015-02-17 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 09:07:12PM +0100, Richard Cochran wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 01:56:12PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: These patches should improve the synchronization of the clock with larger jitters, e.g. with software timestamping, wireless networks, etc. What kind of

[Linuxptp-devel] Hard- and or software timestamping in Linux

2015-02-17 Thread Axel Holzinger
Hello Richard et al, as you Richard were the main force doing the work for adding hardware timestamping to the Linux kernel, could you enlight me how the association of a timestamp residing in kernel space (I guess in the ethernet device driver's domain) and a PTP message is handled by the