[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 6/7] doc: document ieee1588 forwarding mode

John McNamara john.mcnamara at intel.com
Thu Jul 2 17:16:33 CEST 2015


Document the optional ieee1588 forwarding mode.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara at 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 761172e..8c55323 100644
--- a/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/testpmd_app_ug/testpmd_funcs.rst
@@ -625,6 +625,8 @@ 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``.
+
 
 Example:
 
-- 
1.8.1.4



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