[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v3 1/4] Add correlated clocksource deriving system time from an auxiliary clocksource

[Hall, Christopher S]

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> From: Peter Zijlstra [mailto:peterz at infradead.org]
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] Add correlated clocksource deriving system time
> from an auxiliary clocksource
> 
> > > (several milliseconds) and the result will be out of date by some
> fraction of that
> > > amount.
> >
> > Why does it take milliseconds to read one audio time stamp?
> 
> So what I suspect, but please correct me if I'm wrong Chris, is that a
> DSP will buffer and process audio signals, and only later wake up the
> main CPU.
> 
> So by the time the CPU is made aware of the data, it's 'old'.

That's about right.  The DSP runs on a 1 ms cadence.  Any access to registers controlled by the DSP will take 1-2 DSP ticks to access.