mlx5: update timecounter at least twice per counter overflow
authorMiroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Mon, 3 Dec 2018 12:59:41 +0000 (13:59 +0100)
committerSaeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 13:06:00 +0000 (05:06 -0800)
commit5d8678365c90b9ce1fd2243ff5ea562609f6cec1
tree798e2b6811644dca8db59dd3783227fa1a170ee7
parenta9cd3439e3c6d777a05c63b4d06c3500d1d4074e
mlx5: update timecounter at least twice per counter overflow

The timecounter needs to be updated at least once in half of the
cyclecounter interval to prevent timecounter_cyc2time() interpreting a
new timestamp as an old value and causing a backward jump.

This would be an issue if the timecounter multiplier was so small that
the update interval would not be limited by the 64-bit overflow in
multiplication.

Shorten the calculated interval to make sure the timecounter is updated
in time even when the system clock is slowed down by up to 10%, the
multiplier is increased by up to 10%, and the scheduled overflow check
is late by 15%.

Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Ariel Levkovich <lariel@mellanox.com>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/clock.c