Re: [PATCH] rtc: adapt allowed RTC update error

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 12:12:24PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 03:38:35PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> > +	unsigned long time_set_nsec_fuzz;
> > +	static unsigned int attempt;
> 
> Adding a static value instide a static inline should not be done

Well, grepping through the other header files in include/linux, this
would not be the first case.

> I'm not sure using a static like this is the best idea anyhow, if you
> want something like this it should be per-rtc, not global

If there are multiple RTCs, are they all updated in this 11-minute
sync?

> Did you look at why time has become so in-accurate in your system? 5
> jiffies is usually a pretty long time?

I found no good explanation. It seems to depend on what system is
doing, if it's idle, etc. I suspect it's a property of the workqueues
that they cannot generally guarantee the jobs to run exactly on time.
I tried switching to the non-power-efficient and high priority
workqueues and it didn't seem to make a big difference.

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Miroslav Lichvar