ntp: Clamp PLL update interval
authorMiroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:43:46 +0000 (16:43 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 9 Sep 2010 18:48:37 +0000 (20:48 +0200)
commit8af3c153baf95374eff20a37f00c59a295b52756
treedb80f770b668f7067c3e95af92cc92933edce4e0
parentd56557af19867edb8c0e96f8e26399698a08857f
ntp: Clamp PLL update interval

Clamp update interval to reduce PLL gain with low sampling rate (e.g.
intermittent network connection) to avoid instability.

The clamp roughly corresponds to the loop time constant, it's 8 * poll
interval for SHIFT_PLL 2 and 32 * poll interval for SHIFT_PLL 4. This
gives good results without affecting the gain in normal conditions where
ntpd skips only up to seven consecutive samples.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1283870626-9472-1-git-send-email-mlichvar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/time/ntp.c