From: Soumyadeep Hore <soumyadeep.hore@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org, bruce.richardson@intel.com
Cc: rajesh3.kumar@intel.com, aman.deep.singh@intel.com,
manoj.kumar.subbarao@intel.com
Subject: [PATCH v1 4/4] doc: add PTP IDPF documentation
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:38:40 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251024120840.420016-5-soumyadeep.hore@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251024120840.420016-1-soumyadeep.hore@intel.com>
Updated the IDPF Documentation with PTP feature.
Signed-off-by: Soumyadeep Hore <soumyadeep.hore@intel.com>
---
doc/guides/nics/idpf.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/idpf.rst b/doc/guides/nics/idpf.rst
index b99cc18188..e76632904b 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/idpf.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/idpf.rst
@@ -109,3 +109,19 @@ The paths are chosen based on 2 conditions:
A value "P" means the offload feature is not supported by vector path.
If any not supported features are used, idpf vector PMD is disabled
and the scalar paths are chosen.
+
+Time Synchronisation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The system operator can run a PTP (Precision Time Protocol) client application
+to synchronise the time on the network card in ACC
+(and optionally the time on the system) to the PTP master.
+
+IDPF PMD supports PTP client applications that use the DPDK IEEE 1588 API
+to communicate with the PTP master clock.
+Note that PTP client application needs to run on PF in ACC
+and add the ``--force-max-simd-bitwidth=64`` startup parameter to disable vector mode.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ examples/dpdk-ptpclient -l 0-3 -n 3 -a 0000:ec:00.1 --force-max-simd-bitwidth=64 -- -T 1 -p 0x1 -c 1
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-24 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-24 12:08 [PATCH v1 0/4] Enable PTP feature for MEV Soumyadeep Hore
2025-10-24 12:08 ` [PATCH v1 1/4] net/idpf: add a new API for PTP support Soumyadeep Hore
2025-10-24 12:08 ` [PATCH v1 2/4] net/idpf: add PTP virtchnl2 support Soumyadeep Hore
2025-10-24 12:08 ` [PATCH v1 3/4] net/intel: add support for Precision Time Protocol Soumyadeep Hore
2025-10-24 12:08 ` Soumyadeep Hore [this message]
2025-10-24 16:28 ` [PATCH v1 4/4] doc: add PTP IDPF documentation Stephen Hemminger
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