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Subject[RFC] HZ free ntp
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On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 15:33 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > i disagree with you and it's pretty low-impact anyway. There's still
> > quite many HZ/tick assumptions all around the time code (NTP being one
> > example), we'll deal with those via other patches.
>
> Why do you pick on the NTP code? That's actually one of the places where
> assumptions about HZ are largely gone. NTP state is updated incrementally
> and this won't change, but the update frequency can now be easily
> disconnected from HZ.

Hey Roman,
Here's my rough first attempt at doing so. I'd not call it easy, but
maybe you have some suggestions for a simpler way?

Basically INTERVAL_LENGTH_NSEC defines the NTP interval length that the
time code will use to accumulate with. In this patch I've pushed it out
to a full second, but it could be set via config (NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ for
regular systems, something larger for systems using dynticks).

Thoughts?

-john


diff --git a/include/linux/timex.h b/include/linux/timex.h
index db501dc..be13daf 100644
--- a/include/linux/timex.h
+++ b/include/linux/timex.h
@@ -286,9 +286,10 @@ #endif /* !CONFIG_TIME_INTERPOLATION */

#define TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT 32

-/* Returns how long ticks are at present, in ns / 2^(SHIFT_SCALE-10). */
-extern u64 current_tick_length(void);
+#define INTERVAL_LENGTH_NSEC (NSEC_PER_SEC)

+/* Returns how long NTP intervals are at present, in ns / 2^(SHIFT_SCALE-10).*/
+extern u64 ntp_interval_length(void);
extern void second_overflow(void);
extern void update_ntp_one_tick(void);
extern int do_adjtimex(struct timex *);
diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c
index d0ba190..53979a9 100644
--- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -127,12 +127,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get_ts);
*/
static void hrtimer_get_softirq_time(struct hrtimer_base *base)
{
+ struct timespec ts;
ktime_t xtim, tomono;
unsigned long seq;

do {
seq = read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock);
- xtim = timespec_to_ktime(xtime);
+ getnstimeofday(&ts);
+ xtim = timespec_to_ktime(ts);
tomono = timespec_to_ktime(wall_to_monotonic);

} while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));
diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c
index 3afeaa3..812c56f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
+++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
@@ -20,11 +20,12 @@ #include <asm/timex.h>
*/
unsigned long tick_usec = TICK_USEC; /* USER_HZ period (usec) */
unsigned long tick_nsec; /* ACTHZ period (nsec) */
-static u64 tick_length, tick_length_base;
+static u64 interval_length, interval_length_base;

#define MAX_TICKADJ 500 /* microsecs */
-#define MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED (((u64)(MAX_TICKADJ * NSEC_PER_USEC) << \
- TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT) / HZ)
+#define MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED \
+ ((((u64)MAX_TICKADJ * NSEC_PER_USEC * INTERVAL_LENGTH_NSEC) \
+ / NSEC_PER_SEC)<< TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT)

/*
* phase-lock loop variables
@@ -44,15 +45,45 @@ #define CLOCK_TICK_OVERFLOW (LATCH * HZ
#define CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST (((s64)CLOCK_TICK_OVERFLOW * NSEC_PER_SEC) / \
(s64)CLOCK_TICK_RATE)

+/**
+ * ntp_update_frequency - Calculates base values used for NTP adjustments
+ *
+ */
static void ntp_update_frequency(void)
{
- tick_length_base = (u64)(tick_usec * NSEC_PER_USEC * USER_HZ) << TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT;
- tick_length_base += (s64)CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST << TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT;
- tick_length_base += (s64)time_freq << (TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT - SHIFT_NSEC);
-
- do_div(tick_length_base, HZ);
-
- tick_nsec = tick_length_base >> TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT;
+ u64 second_length;
+ s64 adj_length;
+ u64 tick_length;
+ int neg = 0;
+ /* calculate the length of one NTP adjusted second */
+ second_length = (u64)(tick_usec * NSEC_PER_USEC * USER_HZ);
+ second_length += (s64)CLOCK_TICK_ADJUST;
+ adj_length = (s64)time_freq;
+
+ /* calculate tick length @ HZ*/
+ tick_length = (second_length << TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT)
+ + (adj_length << (TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT - SHIFT_NSEC));
+ do_div(tick_length, HZ);
+ tick_nsec = tick_length >> TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT;
+
+
+ /* calculate interval_length_base */
+ /* XXX - this is broken up to avoid 64bit overlfows */
+ interval_length_base = second_length * INTERVAL_LENGTH_NSEC;
+ interval_length_base <<= 2;
+ do_div(interval_length_base, NSEC_PER_SEC);
+ interval_length_base <<= TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT-2;
+
+ if (adj_length < 0) {
+ neg = 1;
+ adj_length = -adj_length;
+ }
+ adj_length *= INTERVAL_LENGTH_NSEC;
+ do_div(adj_length, NSEC_PER_SEC);
+ adj_length <<= (TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT - SHIFT_NSEC);
+ if(neg)
+ adj_length = -adj_length;
+ interval_length_base += adj_length;
}

/**
@@ -69,7 +100,7 @@ void ntp_clear(void)

ntp_update_frequency();

- tick_length = tick_length_base;
+ interval_length = interval_length_base;
time_offset = 0;
}

@@ -148,37 +179,39 @@ void second_overflow(void)
* Compute the phase adjustment for the next second. The offset is
* reduced by a fixed factor times the time constant.
*/
- tick_length = tick_length_base;
+ interval_length = interval_length_base;
time_adj = shift_right(time_offset, SHIFT_PLL + time_constant);
time_offset -= time_adj;
- tick_length += (s64)time_adj << (TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT - SHIFT_UPDATE);
+ interval_length += (s64)time_adj << (TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT - SHIFT_UPDATE);

if (unlikely(time_adjust)) {
if (time_adjust > MAX_TICKADJ) {
time_adjust -= MAX_TICKADJ;
- tick_length += MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED;
+ interval_length += MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED;
} else if (time_adjust < -MAX_TICKADJ) {
time_adjust += MAX_TICKADJ;
- tick_length -= MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED;
+ interval_length -= MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED;
} else {
- tick_length += (s64)(time_adjust * NSEC_PER_USEC /
- HZ) << TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT;
+ u64 adjlen = ((s64)time_adjust * NSEC_PER_USEC
+ * INTERVAL_LENGTH_NSEC) << TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT;
+ do_div(adjlen, NSEC_PER_SEC);
+ interval_length += adjlen;
time_adjust = 0;
}
}
}

/*
- * Return how long ticks are at the moment, that is, how much time
- * update_wall_time_one_tick will add to xtime next time we call it
+ * Return how long NTP intervals are at the moment, that is, how
+ * much time update_wall_time will add to xtime next time we call it
* (assuming no calls to do_adjtimex in the meantime).
* The return value is in fixed-point nanoseconds shifted by the
* specified number of bits to the right of the binary point.
* This function has no side-effects.
*/
-u64 current_tick_length(void)
+u64 ntp_interval_length(void)
{
- return tick_length;
+ return interval_length;
}


diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c
index 0256ab4..3a9f2b4 100644
--- a/kernel/timer.c
+++ b/kernel/timer.c
@@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ void __init timekeeping_init(void)
ntp_clear();

clock = clocksource_get_next();
- clocksource_calculate_interval(clock, tick_nsec);
+ clocksource_calculate_interval(clock, INTERVAL_LENGTH_NSEC);
clock->cycle_last = clocksource_read(clock);

write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&xtime_lock, flags);
@@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ static __always_inline int clocksource_b
* Now calculate the error in (1 << look_ahead) ticks, but first
* remove the single look ahead already included in the error.
*/
- tick_error = current_tick_length() >>
+ tick_error = ntp_interval_length() >>
(TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT - clock->shift + 1);
tick_error -= clock->xtime_interval >> 1;
error = ((error - tick_error) >> look_ahead) + tick_error;
@@ -1077,7 +1077,7 @@ #endif
>> clock->shift);

/* accumulate error between NTP and clock interval */
- clock->error += current_tick_length();
+ clock->error += ntp_interval_length();
clock->error -= clock->xtime_interval << (TICK_LENGTH_SHIFT - clock->shift);
}

@@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ #endif
if (change_clocksource()) {
clock->error = 0;
clock->xtime_nsec = 0;
- clocksource_calculate_interval(clock, tick_nsec);
+ clocksource_calculate_interval(clock, INTERVAL_LENGTH_NSEC);
}
}



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