[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2 net] igb: shorten maximum PHC timecounter update interval

Brown, Aaron F aaron.f.brown at intel.com
Sat Nov 3 01:06:20 UTC 2018


> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at osuosl.org] On
> Behalf Of Miroslav Lichvar
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 10:13 AM
> To: netdev at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org; Richard Cochran
> <richardcochran at gmail.com>; Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v2 net] igb: shorten maximum PHC
> timecounter update interval
> 
> The timecounter needs to be updated at least once per ~550 seconds in
> order to avoid a 40-bit SYSTIM timestamp to be misinterpreted as an old
> timestamp.
> 
> Since commit 500462a9de65 ("timers: Switch to a non-cascading wheel"),
> scheduling of delayed work seems to be less accurate and a requested
> delay of 540 seconds may actually be longer than 550 seconds. Also, the
> PHC may be adjusted to run up to 6% faster than real time and the system
> clock up to 10% slower. Shorten the delay to 360 seconds to be sure the
> timecounter is updated in time.
> 
> This fixes an issue with HW timestamps on 82580/I350/I354 being off by
> ~1100 seconds for few seconds every ~9 minutes.
> 
> Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller at intel.com>
> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran at gmail.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>

Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown at intel.com>


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