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authorOtavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>2020-05-20 08:43:03 -0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-05-20 08:43:03 -0300
commit1279cd128bba968ebe0a2df7f7ae38bae90250ef (patch)
treedf6b1a190760f51465122ca4c13492d5ac5984c6 /drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c
parent0a8ab17689e628c84a666195bfc6ab85d11cf057 (diff)
parent2ae782ca839e0ee07de37122ddea362adff2e975 (diff)
Merge pull request #76 from toradex/4.9-2.3.x-imx
4.9 2.3.x imx
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c
index 9eb9b68f8935..ae1f963b6092 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_ptp.c
@@ -65,9 +65,15 @@
*
* The 40 bit 82580 SYSTIM overflows every
* 2^40 * 10^-9 / 60 = 18.3 minutes.
+ *
+ * SYSTIM is converted to real time using a timecounter. As
+ * timecounter_cyc2time() allows old timestamps, the timecounter
+ * needs to be updated at least once per half of the SYSTIM interval.
+ * Scheduling of delayed work is not very accurate, so we aim for 8
+ * minutes to be sure the actual interval is shorter than 9.16 minutes.
*/
-#define IGB_SYSTIM_OVERFLOW_PERIOD (HZ * 60 * 9)
+#define IGB_SYSTIM_OVERFLOW_PERIOD (HZ * 60 * 8)
#define IGB_PTP_TX_TIMEOUT (HZ * 15)
#define INCPERIOD_82576 BIT(E1000_TIMINCA_16NS_SHIFT)
#define INCVALUE_82576_MASK GENMASK(E1000_TIMINCA_16NS_SHIFT - 1, 0)