On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 05:34:02PM +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote:
> Yea, I double checked the e1000e source, it looks like e1000e_systim_reset is 
> using the kernel time to reset the system timer. I suspect this is what 
> causes the 36second alignment issue, after it tries to reset to recover...

Yes, that explains the offset.
 
> I don't know what triggers the reset... Maybe the driver should cache the 
> current time and restore it after? This does mean that any time lost during 
> the reset will be lost, but that's inevitible with a hardware reset that 
> clears the register...

But in any case, it is a driver/HW issue, and it isn't something we
can solve on this list.

Sorry,
Richard

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