Acked-by: Rajesh Kumar <[email protected]> -----Original Message----- From: Hore, Soumyadeep <[email protected]> Sent: 15 February 2026 01:19 AM To: [email protected]; Richardson, Bruce <[email protected]> Cc: Kumar, Rajesh3 <[email protected]>; Singh, Aman Deep <[email protected]>; Subbarao, Manoj Kumar <[email protected]> Subject: [PATCH v6 4/4] doc/guides: add PTP IDPF documentation
Updates the IDPF Documentation with PTP feature. Signed-off-by: Soumyadeep Hore <[email protected]> --- doc/guides/nics/features/idpf.ini | 1 + doc/guides/nics/idpf.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++ doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_03.rst | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/idpf.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/idpf.ini index 63b799289a..f546648924 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/features/idpf.ini +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/idpf.ini @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ RSS reta update = Y L3 checksum offload = P L4 checksum offload = P Timestamp offload = P +Timesync = Y Packet type parsing = Y Basic stats = Y Linux = Y diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/idpf.rst b/doc/guides/nics/idpf.rst index b99cc18188..998c1a5dfa 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/idpf.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/idpf.rst @@ -109,3 +109,18 @@ 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 Synchronization + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + The system operator can run a PTP (Precision Time Protocol) client + application to synchronize the time on the network card in ACC (and + optionally the time on the system) to the PTP primary. + + IDPF PMD supports PTP client applications that use the DPDK IEEE 1588 + API to communicate with the PTP primary clock. + Note that PTP client application needs to run on PF in ACC. + + .. code-block:: console + + examples/dpdk-ptpclient -l 0-3 -n 3 -a 0000:ec:00.1 -- -T 1 -p 0x1 diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_03.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_03.rst index afdf1af06c..16b5a0b0b1 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_03.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_26_03.rst @@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ New Features * The timestamp value has been updated to make it usable. +* **Updated Intel idpf ethernet driver.** + + * Added support for time sync features. + * **Updated Intel iavf driver.** * Added support for pre and post VF reset callbacks. -- 2.47.1
