[Intel-wired-lan] [RFC PATCH 0/4] More accurate PHC<->system clock synchronization

[Richard Cochran]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 06:27:38PM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> The other patches add support for the new ioctl to the e1000e, igb,
> and ixgbe driver. Tests with few different NICs in different machines
> (and PCIe slots) show that:
> - with an I219 (e1000e) the measured delay improved from 2500 to 1300 ns
>   and the error in the measured offset, when compared to cross
>   timestamping, was reduced by a factor of 5
> - with an I210 (igb) the delay improved from 5100 to 1700 ns
> - with an I350 (igb) the delay improved from 2300 to 750 ns
> - with an X550 (ixgbe) the delay improved from 1950 to 650 ns

Nice work!  This is a welcome improvement.

Thanks,
Richard