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Commit 33180bee authored by Ariel Levkovich's avatar Ariel Levkovich Committed by Saeed Mahameed
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net/mlx5: Adjust clock overflow work period



When driver converts HW timestamp to wall clock time it subtracts
the last saved cycle counter from the HW timestamp and converts the
difference to nanoseconds.
The conversion is done by multiplying the cycles difference with the
clock multiplier value as a first step and therefore the cycles
difference should be small enough so that the multiplication product
doesn't exceed 64bit.

The overflow handling routine is in charge of updating the last saved
cycle counter in driver and it is called periodically using kernel
delayed workqueue.

The delay period for this work is calculated using the max HW cycle
counter value (a 41 bit mask) as a base which doesn't take the 64bit
limit into account so the delay period may be incorrect and too
long to prevent a large difference between the HW counter and the last
saved counter in SW.

This change adjusts the work period for the HW clock overflow work by
taking the minimum between the previous value and the quotient of max
u64 value and the clock multiplier value.

Fixes: ef9814de ("net/mlx5e: Add HW timestamping (TS) support")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAriel Levkovich <lariel@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEran Ben Elisha <eranbe@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
parent e279d634
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