Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 1/9] Add new TLV for CommonMeanLinkDelayInformation

[Richard C. <ric...@gm...>]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 11:11:50PM +0100, Andrew Zaborowski wrote:

> The two timestamps are passed to clock_peer_delay() by the receiving
> port and stored in c->tsproc.  Then they're accessed by
> get_raw_delay() which is used in the filter logic.  I'm not sure how
> much value that has, we can possibly pass 0s to clock_peer_delay().

If the client uses CMLDS, then it doesn't need tsproc logic at all.
It simply take the delay value from the CMLDS server.
 
> Regarding "source_port_index", I assume that would contain the ifindex
> of the interface?  With virtual clocks I believe the PHC indices may
> differ between the PTP ports on one physical port ("link port").

No, I mean the PTP port number.  These are taken from the order of the
interfaces on the command line and in the configuration file.

Thanks,
Richard