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authorMiroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>2010-09-07 16:43:46 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2010-09-09 20:48:37 +0200
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ntp: Clamp PLL update interval
Clamp update interval to reduce PLL gain with low sampling rate (e.g. intermittent network connection) to avoid instability. The clamp roughly corresponds to the loop time constant, it's 8 * poll interval for SHIFT_PLL 2 and 32 * poll interval for SHIFT_PLL 4. This gives good results without affecting the gain in normal conditions where ntpd skips only up to seven consecutive samples. Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1283870626-9472-1-git-send-email-mlichvar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/ntp.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/ntp.c b/kernel/time/ntp.c
index c63116863a80..d2321891538f 100644
--- a/kernel/time/ntp.c
+++ b/kernel/time/ntp.c
@@ -149,10 +149,18 @@ static void ntp_update_offset(long offset)
time_reftime = get_seconds();
offset64 = offset;
- freq_adj = (offset64 * secs) <<
- (NTP_SCALE_SHIFT - 2 * (SHIFT_PLL + 2 + time_constant));
+ freq_adj = ntp_update_offset_fll(offset64, secs);
- freq_adj += ntp_update_offset_fll(offset64, secs);
+ /*
+ * Clamp update interval to reduce PLL gain with low
+ * sampling rate (e.g. intermittent network connection)
+ * to avoid instability.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(secs > 1 << (SHIFT_PLL + 1 + time_constant)))
+ secs = 1 << (SHIFT_PLL + 1 + time_constant);
+
+ freq_adj += (offset64 * secs) <<
+ (NTP_SCALE_SHIFT - 2 * (SHIFT_PLL + 2 + time_constant));
freq_adj = min(freq_adj + time_freq, MAXFREQ_SCALED);