Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] hv_utils: implement Hyper-V PTP source

[Vitaly Kuznetsov]

KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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>> From: Vitaly Kuznetsov [mailto:vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 6:17 AM
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>> Subject: [PATCH v4 2/2] hv_utils: implement Hyper-V PTP source
>> 
>> With TimeSync version 4 protocol support we started updating system time
>> continuously through the whole lifetime of Hyper-V guests. Every 5 seconds
>> there is a time sample from the host which triggers do_settimeofday[64]().
>> While the time from the host is very accurate such adjustments may cause
>> issues:
>> - Time is jumping forward and backward, some applications may misbehave.
>> - In case an NTP server runs in parallel and uses something else for time
>>   sync (network, PTP,...) system time will never converge.
>> - Systemd starts annoying you by printing "Time has been changed" every 5
>>   seconds to the system log.
>> 
>> Instead of doing in-kernel time adjustments offload the work to an
>> NTP client by exposing TimeSync messages as a PTP device. Users may now
>> decide what they want to use as a source.
>> 
>> I tested the solution with chrony, the config was:
>> 
>>  refclock PHC /dev/ptp0 poll 3 precision 1e-9
>> 
>> The result I'm seeing is accurate enough, the time delta between the guest
>> and the host is almost always within [-10us, +10us], the in-kernel solution
>> was giving us comparable results.
>> 
>> I also tried implementing PPS device instead of PTP by using not currently
>> used Hyper-V synthetic timers (we use only one of four for clockevent) but
>> with PPS source only chrony wasn't able to give me the required accuracy,
>> the delta often more that 100us.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Vitaly,
>
> This patch does not apply. Please rebase and send.
>

Sure, I'm currently testing v5 which includes the .getcrosststamp()
callback support. Will be sending it out shortly.

-- 
  Vitaly