Re: [PATCH 4/10] NTP: precalculate time_adj from frequency

From: john stultz
Date: Wed Jan 11 2006 - 21:35:30 EST


On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 00:22 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> This adds the frequency part to ntp_update_frequency(). It basically
> calculates from tick_usec and time_freq how many nsec the time should be
> advanced per second and converts it into the nsec and fraction per tick
> (tick_nsec and time_adj).
> Precalculating these values allows to be more precise and avoids the
> crude time_freq to time_adj conversion in second_overflow().

This patch looks ok as well, although would you consider renaming
time_adj to something like phase_adj? Also maybe include a larger
comment about how tick_nsec and phase_adj store the ntp adjustment, just
to make it obvious that they are the cumulative result of the adjtimex()
offset, freq, tick and singleshot offset values?


thanks
-john


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