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From: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 7/7] doc: document ieee1588 forwarding mode
Date: Thu,  9 Jul 2015 14:30:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1436448620-13972-8-git-send-email-john.mcnamara@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436448620-13972-1-git-send-email-john.mcnamara@intel.com>

Document the optional ieee1588 forwarding mode.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst       | 2 +-
 doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
index b29c176..54ae2b2 100644
--- a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/run_app.rst
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ They must be separated from the EAL options, shown in the previous section, with
 
 *   --forward-mode=N
 
-    Set forwarding mode. (N: io|mac|mac_retry|mac_swap|flowgen|rxonly|txonly|csum|icmpecho)
+    Set forwarding mode. (N: io|mac|mac_retry|mac_swap|flowgen|rxonly|txonly|csum|icmpecho|ieee1588)
 
 *   --rss-ip
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst
index 1d040cb..4652962 100644
--- a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst
@@ -635,6 +635,8 @@ The available information categories are:
 
 *   icmpecho: receives a burst of packets, lookup for IMCP echo requests and, if any, send back ICMP echo replies.
 
+*   ieee1588: demonstrate L2 IEEE1588 V2 PTP timestamping for RX and TX. Requires ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_IEEE1588=y``.
+    Note: TX timestamping is only available in the "Full Featured" TX path. To force ``testpmd`` into this mode set ``--txqflags=0``.
 
 Example:
 
-- 
1.8.1.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-09 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-09 13:30 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/7] ethdev: add support for ieee1588 timestamping John McNamara
2015-07-09 13:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/7] " John McNamara
2015-07-09 13:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/7] mbuf: add field for ieee1588 timesync index John McNamara
2015-07-09 13:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/7] e1000: add support for ieee1588 timestamping John McNamara
2015-07-09 13:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/7] ixgbe: " John McNamara
2015-07-09 13:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/7] i40e: " John McNamara
2015-07-09 13:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 6/7] app/testpmd: refactor ieee1588 forwarding John McNamara
2015-07-09 13:30 ` John McNamara [this message]
2015-07-10  0:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/7] ethdev: add support for ieee1588 timestamping Thomas Monjalon

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