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From: Shradha Shah <sshah@solarflare.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 03/13] sfc: Rewrite adjustment of PPS event in a clearer way
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:58:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FBC466.8000702@solarflare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52FBC3C2.7030103@solarflare.com>

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

There is substantial latency in generation and handling of PPS events
from the NIC, which we have to correct for before passing a host
timestamp to the PPS subsystem.  We compare clocks with the MC,
giving us two offsets to subtract from the timestamp generated by
pps_get_ts():

(a) Time from the last good sync (where we got host and NIC timestamps
    for nearly the same instant) to the time we called pps_get_ts()
(b) Time from NIC top of second to the last good sync

We currently calculate (a) + (b) in a quite confusing way.
Instead, calculate (a) completely, then add (b) to it.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Shradha Shah <sshah@solarflare.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c |   47 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c
index 7d0de50..28275e3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ptp.c
@@ -766,37 +766,36 @@ efx_ptp_process_times(struct efx_nic *efx, MCDI_DECLARE_STRUCT_PTR(synch_buf),
 		return -EAGAIN;
 	}
 
-	/* Convert the NIC time into kernel time. No correction is required-
-	 * this time is the output of a firmware process.
-	 */
-	mc_time = ptp->nic_to_kernel_time(ptp->timeset[last_good].major,
-					  ptp->timeset[last_good].minor, 0);
-
-	/* Calculate delay from actual PPS to last_time */
-	delta = ktime_to_timespec(mc_time);
-	delta.tv_nsec +=
-		last_time->ts_real.tv_nsec -
-		(ptp->timeset[last_good].host_start & MC_NANOSECOND_MASK);
-
-	/* It is possible that the seconds rolled over between taking
+	/* Calculate delay from last good sync (host time) to last_time.
+	 * It is possible that the seconds rolled over between taking
 	 * the start reading and the last value written by the host.  The
 	 * timescales are such that a gap of more than one second is never
-	 * expected.
+	 * expected.  delta is *not* normalised.
 	 */
 	start_sec = ptp->timeset[last_good].host_start >> MC_NANOSECOND_BITS;
 	last_sec = last_time->ts_real.tv_sec & MC_SECOND_MASK;
-	if (start_sec != last_sec) {
-		if (((start_sec + 1) & MC_SECOND_MASK) != last_sec) {
-			netif_warn(efx, hw, efx->net_dev,
-				   "PTP bad synchronisation seconds\n");
-			return -EAGAIN;
-		} else {
-			delta.tv_sec = 1;
-		}
-	} else {
-		delta.tv_sec = 0;
+	if (start_sec != last_sec &&
+	    ((start_sec + 1) & MC_SECOND_MASK) != last_sec) {
+		netif_warn(efx, hw, efx->net_dev,
+			   "PTP bad synchronisation seconds\n");
+		return -EAGAIN;
 	}
+	delta.tv_sec = (last_sec - start_sec) & 1;
+	delta.tv_nsec =
+		last_time->ts_real.tv_nsec -
+		(ptp->timeset[last_good].host_start & MC_NANOSECOND_MASK);
+
+	/* Convert the NIC time at last good sync into kernel time.
+	 * No correction is required - this time is the output of a
+	 * firmware process.
+	 */
+	mc_time = ptp->nic_to_kernel_time(ptp->timeset[last_good].major,
+					  ptp->timeset[last_good].minor, 0);
+
+	/* Calculate delay from NIC top of second to last_time */
+	delta.tv_nsec += ktime_to_timespec(mc_time).tv_nsec;
 
+	/* Set PPS timestamp to match NIC top of second */
 	ptp->host_time_pps = *last_time;
 	pps_sub_ts(&ptp->host_time_pps, delta);
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-12 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-12 18:56 [PATCH net-next 00/13] Cleanup patches for the SFC driver Shradha Shah
2014-02-12 18:58 ` [PATCH net-next 01/13] sfc: Removed adhoc scheme to rate limit PTP event queue overflow message Shradha Shah
2014-02-12 18:58 ` [PATCH net-next 02/13] sfc: Cache skb->data in local variable in efx_ptp_rx() Shradha Shah
2014-02-12 18:58 ` Shradha Shah [this message]
2014-02-12 18:58 ` [PATCH net-next 04/13] sfc: Replace TSOH_OFFSET with the equivalent NET_IP_ALIGN Shradha Shah
2014-02-12 18:59 ` [PATCH net-next 06/13] sfc: Remove unused definitions of EF10 user-mode DMA descriptors Shradha Shah
2014-02-12 18:59 ` [PATCH net-next 07/13] sfc: Correct comment about number of TX queues used on EF10 Shradha Shah
2014-02-12 18:59 ` [PATCH net-next 08/13] sfc: Preserve rx_frm_trunc counters when resizing DMA rings Shradha Shah
2014-02-12 18:59 ` [PATCH net-next 05/13] sfc: Rename 'use_options' variable in tso_start() to clearer 'use_opt_desc' Shradha Shah
2014-02-12 18:59 ` [PATCH net-next 09/13] sfc: Use canonical pointer type for MAC address in efx_set_mac_address() Shradha Shah
2014-02-12 19:00 ` [PATCH net-next 10/13] sfc: Update product naming Shradha Shah
2014-02-12 19:00 ` [PATCH net-next 11/13] sfc: Cosmetic changes to self-test from the out-of-tree driver Shradha Shah
2014-02-12 19:00 ` [PATCH net-next 12/13] sfc: Fail self-test with -EBUSY, not -EIO, if the device is busy Shradha Shah
2014-02-12 19:00 ` [PATCH net-next 13/13] sfc: Add/remove blank lines to taste Shradha Shah
2014-02-12 23:42 ` [PATCH net-next 00/13] Cleanup patches for the SFC driver David Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-03 23:21 [PATCH net-next 00/13] Cleanup patches Shradha Shah
2014-02-03 23:33 ` [PATCH net-next 03/13] sfc: Rewrite adjustment of PPS event in a clearer way Shradha Shah

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