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Date:   Sun, 06 Dec 2020 22:46:17 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc:     Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
        Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
        Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>,
        linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: [patch 4/8] rtc: core: Make the sync offset default more realistic
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The offset which is used to steer the start of an RTC synchronization
update via rtc_set_ntp_time() is huge. The math behind this is:

  tsched       twrite(t2.tv_sec - 1) 	 t2 (seconds increment)

twrite - tsched is the transport time for the write to hit the device.

t2 - twrite depends on the chip and is for most chips one second.

The rtc_set_ntp_time() calculation of tsched is:

    tsched = t2 - 1sec - (t2 - twrite)

The default for the sync offset is 500ms which means that twrite - tsched
is 500ms assumed that t2 - twrite is one second.

This is 0.5 seconds off for RTCs which are directly accessible by IO writes
and probably for the majority of i2C/SPI based RTC off by an order of
magnitude. Set it to 10ms which should bring it closer to reality.

The default can be adjusted by drivers (rtc_cmos does so) and could be
adjusted further by a calibration method which is an orthogonal problem.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
 drivers/rtc/class.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/rtc/class.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/class.c
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ static struct rtc_device *rtc_allocate_d
 	device_initialize(&rtc->dev);
 
 	/* Drivers can revise this default after allocating the device. */
-	rtc->set_offset_nsec =  NSEC_PER_SEC / 2;
+	rtc->set_offset_nsec =  10 * NSEC_PER_MSEC;
 
 	rtc->irq_freq = 1;
 	rtc->max_user_freq = 64;