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Jonathan Lemon authored
The following process is used to read the PHC clock and correlate the reading with the "correct" system time. - get starting timestamp - issue PCI write command - issue PCI read command - get ending timestamp - read latched sec/nsec registers The write command is posted to PCI bus and returns. When the write arrives at the FPGA, the PHC time is latched into the sec/nsec registers, and a flag is set indicating the registers are valid. The read command returns this flag, and the time retrieval proceeds. Below is a non-scaled picture of the timing diagram involved. The PHC time corresponds to some SYS time between [start, end]. Userspace usually uses the midpoint between [start, end] to estimate the PCI delay and match this with the PHC time. [start] | | write |-------+ | | \ | read |----+ +----->| | \ * PHC time latched into register | \ | midpoint | +------->| | | | | | +----| | / | |<--------+ | [end] | | As the diagram indicates, the PHC time is latched before the midpoint, so the system clock time is slightly off the real PHC time. This shows up as a phase error with an oscilliscope. The workaround here is to provide a tunable which reduces (shrinks) the end time in the above diagram. This in turn moves the calculated midpoint so the system time and PHC time are in agreemment. Currently, the adjustment reduces the end time by 3/16th of the entire window. E.g.: [start, end] ==> [start, (end - (3/16 * end)], which produces reasonably good results. Also reduce delays by just writing to the clock control register instead of performing a read/modify/write sequence, as the contents of the control register are known. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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