Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.

Natan Manevich

Dotan David Levi

Wojciech Wasko

Ariel Almog

Bar Shapira

Arnon Sattinger

Maciek Machnikowski

Ariel Shahar

Liron Mula

Roee Moyal

Shahaf Shuler

Thomas Kernen

Eitan Hirshberg

Nir Nitzani

Amit Mandelbaum

Ofir Sadeh

Jonathan Oliel

Teferet Geula

Noam Bloch

Eitan Zahavi

Lior Narkis

Avraham Ganor

Avi Urman

Hillel Chapman

Shay Aisman

Ran Avraham Koren

Doron Fael

Richard Hastie

Eliel Peretz

Alex Vainman

Ilan Smith

Roi Geuli

Itai Levy

Alex Vaynman

Maciej Machnikowski

Wojciech Waśko

Artiom Tsur

Reuven Kogan

Rafi Weiner

Eran Ben Elisha

Eyal Serbro

A network interface device includes a local register and packet processing circuitry coupled to the local register. The packet processing circuitry is to: capture a network packet transmitted by a software application running on an integrated computing system; capture, at time of transmission of the network packet, a value of a physical clock as a receive timestamp for subscriber entities that are running on the integrated computing system; store the receive timestamp in the local register; associate the receive timestamp from the local register with a first packet copy of the network packet; insert the first packet copy to a first receive pipeline of a first subscriber entity; associate the receive timestamp from the local register with a second packet copy of the network packet; and insert the second packet copy to a second receive pipeline of a second subscriber entity.

Precise multicast timestamping

In one embodiment, a processing system includes an interface controller to receive a data signal from a remote link partner over a link, and recover a clock signal from the received data signal, frequency generation circuitry to receive the recovered clock signal, and output a local clock signal responsively to the received recovered clock signal, wherein the interface controller is configured to drive a transmit symbol rate responsively to the local clock signal, and a digital control loop including the interface controller and the frequency generation circuitry, wherein the interface controller is configured to identify a clock drift, generate a digital control signal responsively to the clock drift, and send the digital control signal to the frequency generation circuitry, which is configured to adjust a frequency of the local clock signal responsively to the digital control signal in order to reduce the clock drift.

Hybrid clock synchronization

In one embodiment, a synchronized communication system includes a plurality of network devices, and clock connections to connect the network devices in a closed loop configuration, wherein the network devices are configured to distribute among the network devices a reference clock time from any selected one of the network devices.

Boundary clock synchronized loop

In one embodiment, a system includes a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) to generate a local clock having a local clock frequency, and clock synchronization circuitry to receive from a device a signal indicative of a remote clock frequency, compare measures of the remote clock frequency and the local clock frequency; generate a digital control command based on the comparison; and provide the digital control command to the DCO, wherein the DCO is to adjust the local clock frequency responsively to the digital control command.

Physical layer syntonization using digitally controlled oscillator

In one embodiment, a clock syntonization system includes a first compute node including a first physical hardware clock to operate at a first clock frequency, a second compute node, and an interconnect data bus to transfer data from the first compute node at a data rate indicative of the first clock frequency of the first physical hardware clock, and wherein the second compute node includes clock synchronization circuitry to derive a second clock frequency from the data rate of the transferred data, and provide a clock signal at the derived second clock frequency.

Syntonization through physical layer of interconnects

In one embodiment, a system includes a network interface controller including a device interface to connect to a processing device and receive a time synchronization marker message from an application running on the processing device, a network interface to send packets over a network, and packet processing circuitry to process the time synchronization marker message for sending via the network interface over the network to a slave clock device, generate a time synchronization follow-up message including a timestamp indicative of when the synchronization marker message egressed the network interface, and process the time synchronization follow-up message for sending via the network interface over the network to the slave clock device.

Clock synchronization NIC offload

In one embodiment, a clock synchronization system includes clock circuitry to maintain a clock running at a clock frequency, a clock controller, and a processor to execute software to generate clock update commands and provide the clock update commands to the clock controller, wherein the clock controller is configured to apply the clock update commands to the clock, store a holdover frequency command to maintain the clock during a failure of the clock update commands, apply the holdover frequency command to the clock responsively to detecting the failure.

Clock adjustment holdover

A communication system includes at least one send queue, containing send queue entries pointing to packets to be transmitted over a network by packet sending circuitry. A clock work queue contains clock queue entries to synchronize sending times of the packets pointed to by the send queue entries. At least one arming queue contains arming queue entries to arm the clock work queue at selected time intervals.

Clock queue with arming and/or self-arming features

A device includes a hardware block to perform a hardware process and internal logic coupled between a processing device, which executes instructions, and the hardware block. The internal logic can one of measure execution time or count clock cycles of at least a portion of the hardware process. The internal logic can further, in response to the measured execution time or the counted clock cycles satisfying a predetermined condition, provide data associated with the one of the execution time measurement or the clock cycles count to the processing device, the data being statistically indicative of a latency of data packets sent by the hardware process over a total time the hardware process executes.

Intelligent exposure of hardware latency statistics within an electronic device or system

A network adapter includes a network port for communicating with a communication network, a hardware clock, and circuitry. The circuitry is coupled to receive from the communication network, via the network port, one or more time-protocol packets that convey a network time used for synchronizing network devices in the communication network, to align the hardware clock to the network time conveyed in the time-protocol packets, and to make the network time available to one or more time-service consumers running in a host served by the network adapter.

Network adapter providing isolated self-contained time services

A system includes a device coupled to a processing device. The processing device is to receive a request to execute a plurality of workloads, the request comprising a rate to execute each workload of the plurality of workloads and a parameter value indicating an execution offset. The processing device is further to determine a sequence for executing the plurality of workloads based on receiving the rate and the parameter value, where the sequence is to execute each workload at the respective rate and each workload of the plurality of workloads is executed at a different time based on the parameter value. The processing device is to execute the plurality of workloads in accordance with the sequence upon determining the sequence to execute the plurality of workloads.

Execution offset rate limiter

A system for maintaining a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) hardware clock, the system being operative in conjunction with a network device which is external to the system, the system comprising a controller to receive information characterizing a network peer oscillator frequency, wherein the information was extracted from an RX symbol rate, and to adjust the PTP Hardware Clock's frequency responsive to the information characterizing the network peer oscillator frequency.

Controller which adjusts clock frequency based on received symbol rate

In one embodiment, a communication system includes network devices, each comprising a network interface to receive at least one data stream, a given network device being configured to recover a remote clock from the at least one data stream received by the given network device, a frequency synthesizer to generate a clock signal and output the clock signal to each of the network devices, wherein the given network device is configured to find a clock frequency differential between the clock signal and the recovered remote clock, and provide a control signal to the frequency synthesizer responsively to the clock frequency differential, the control signal causes the frequency synthesizer to adjust the clock signal so as to iteratively reduce an absolute value of the clock frequency differential between the clock signal and the recovered remote clock.

Scalable synchronization of network devices

In one embodiment, a system includes a memory, a processing device including a device processor; and a device clock, and a peripheral device including an interface to share data with the processing device, a hardware clock, and processing circuitry to write respective interrupt signaling messages to the memory responsively to respective hardware clock values of the hardware clock, and wherein the device processor is configured, responsively to the respective interrupt signaling messages being written to the memory, to perform a time-dependent action.

System to trigger time-dependent action

A timing system including timing circuitry which includes an arming queue, a clock work queue, and a clock completion queue. At least the clock work queue is to provide timing information, and the arming queue is to arm the clock work queue. Related apparatus and methods are also provided.

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