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| author | Kasper Pedersen <kkp2010@kasperkp.dk> | 2010-10-21 00:55:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2010-10-21 17:30:05 +0200 |
| commit | a386b5af8edda1c742ce9f77891e112eefffc005 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a74b512d751758144b219988f60d69a5fd028f9 | |
| parent | ntp: Clamp PLL update interval (diff) | |
| download | linux-a386b5af8edda1c742ce9f77891e112eefffc005.tar.xz linux-a386b5af8edda1c742ce9f77891e112eefffc005.zip | |
time: Compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources
When the clocksource is not a multiple of HZ, the clock will be off. For
acpi_pm, HZ=1000 the error is 127.111 ppm:
The rounding of cycle_interval ends up generating a false error term in
ntp_error accumulation since xtime_interval is not exactly 1/HZ. So, we
subtract out the error caused by the rounding.
This has been visible since 2.6.32-rc2
commit a092ff0f90cae22b2ac8028ecd2c6f6c1a9e4601
time: Implement logarithmic time accumulation
That commit raised NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ and exposed the rounding error.
testing tool: http://n1.taur.dk/permanent/testpmt.c
Also tested with ntpd and a frequency counter.
Signed-off-by: Kasper Pedersen <kkp2010@kasperkp.dk>
Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c index 49010d822f72..5bb86da82003 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ struct timekeeper { cycle_t cycle_interval; /* Number of clock shifted nano seconds in one NTP interval. */ u64 xtime_interval; + /* shifted nano seconds left over when rounding cycle_interval */ + s64 xtime_remainder; /* Raw nano seconds accumulated per NTP interval. */ u32 raw_interval; @@ -62,7 +64,7 @@ struct timekeeper timekeeper; static void timekeeper_setup_internals(struct clocksource *clock) { cycle_t interval; - u64 tmp; + u64 tmp, ntpinterval; timekeeper.clock = clock; clock->cycle_last = clock->read(clock); @@ -70,6 +72,7 @@ static void timekeeper_setup_internals(struct clocksource *clock) /* Do the ns -> cycle conversion first, using original mult */ tmp = NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH; tmp <<= clock->shift; + ntpinterval = tmp; tmp += clock->mult/2; do_div(tmp, clock->mult); if (tmp == 0) @@ -80,6 +83,7 @@ static void timekeeper_setup_internals(struct clocksource *clock) /* Go back from cycles -> shifted ns */ timekeeper.xtime_interval = (u64) interval * clock->mult; + timekeeper.xtime_remainder = ntpinterval - timekeeper.xtime_interval; timekeeper.raw_interval = ((u64) interval * clock->mult) >> clock->shift; @@ -719,7 +723,8 @@ static cycle_t logarithmic_accumulation(cycle_t offset, int shift) /* Accumulate error between NTP and clock interval */ timekeeper.ntp_error += tick_length << shift; - timekeeper.ntp_error -= timekeeper.xtime_interval << + timekeeper.ntp_error -= + (timekeeper.xtime_interval + timekeeper.xtime_remainder) << (timekeeper.ntp_error_shift + shift); return offset; |