Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] Produce system time from correlated clocksource

From: Richard Cochran
Date: Tue Oct 20 2015 - 04:54:21 EST


On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 05:36:56PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> If we're only tracking 4ms of history, how does this solution
> measurably improve the error over using the timestamps to generate
> MONOTONIC_RAW clock deltas (which doesn't require keeping any history)
> and using getnstime_raw_and_real to take an anchor point to calculate
> the delta from? Why is adding complexity necessary?

This idea is variant of what I suggested in another reply in this
thread. To my understanding, there is no need at all to keep a
history arbitrarily 4 ms long. Instead, the DSP driver (or whoever
else may need such a thing) can simply sample the system time at the
rate needed for that particular application.

Thanks,
Richard
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