The offset which is used to steer the start of an RTC synchronization
update via rtc_set_ntp_time() is huge. The math behind this is:
tsched twrite(t2.tv_sec - 1) t2 (seconds increment)
twrite - tsched is the transport time for the write to hit the device.
t2 - twrite depends on the chip and is for most chips one second.
The rtc_set_ntp_time() calculation of tsched is:
tsched = t2 - 1sec - (t2 - twrite)
The default for the sync offset is 500ms which means that twrite - tsched
is 500ms assumed that t2 - twrite is one second.
This is 0.5 seconds off for RTCs which are directly accessible by IO writes
and probably for the majority of i2C/SPI based RTC off by an order of
magnitude. Set it to 10ms which should bring it closer to reality.
The default can be adjusted by drivers (rtc_cmos does so) and could be
adjusted further by a calibration method which is an orthogonal problem.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
---
drivers/rtc/class.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/rtc/class.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/class.c
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ static struct rtc_device *rtc_allocate_d
device_initialize(&rtc->dev);
/* Drivers can revise this default after allocating the device. */
- rtc->set_offset_nsec = NSEC_PER_SEC / 2;
+ rtc->set_offset_nsec = 10 * NSEC_PER_MSEC;
rtc->irq_freq = 1;
rtc->max_user_freq = 64;
