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    rtc: core: Make the sync offset default more realistic · 354c796b
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    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 5ms 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: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201206220541.960333166@linutronix.de
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