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authorDave Barach <dbarach@cisco.com>2018-09-07 11:12:27 -0400
committerDamjan Marion <dmarion@me.com>2018-09-07 19:38:50 +0000
commit36feebb42f1fb9734c1b99b4afae87d3c8233548 (patch)
tree099474480f66d765896a2824c87adead71ade7ce /src/vppinfra/time.c
parent833de8cab672c806176d580a1ebc001f394b2eaf (diff)
Improve NTP / kernel time change event handling
clib_time_verify_frequency(...) rejects clock frequency changes greater than 1%. vlib_worker_thread_barrier_sync_int (...) continuously checks that the barrier hold-down timer is not unreasonably far in the future. Change-Id: I00ecb4c20e44de5d6a9c1499fa933e3dd834d11a Signed-off-by: Dave Barach <dbarach@cisco.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/vppinfra/time.c')
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/vppinfra/time.c b/src/vppinfra/time.c
index e9a764bcd31..d647e670dad 100644
--- a/src/vppinfra/time.c
+++ b/src/vppinfra/time.c
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ clib_time_verify_frequency (clib_time_t * c)
f64 dtr = now_reference - c->last_verify_reference_time;
f64 dtr_max;
u64 dtc = c->last_cpu_time - c->last_verify_cpu_time;
+ f64 new_clocks_per_second, delta;
f64 round_units = 100e5;
c->last_verify_cpu_time = c->last_cpu_time;
@@ -217,6 +218,25 @@ clib_time_verify_frequency (clib_time_t * c)
return;
}
+ /*
+ * Reject large frequency changes, another consequence of
+ * system clock changes particularly with old kernels.
+ */
+ new_clocks_per_second =
+ flt_round_nearest ((f64) dtc / (dtr * round_units)) * round_units;
+
+ delta = new_clocks_per_second - c->clocks_per_second;
+ if (delta < 0.0)
+ delta = -delta;
+
+ if (PREDICT_FALSE ((delta / c->clocks_per_second) > .01))
+ {
+ clib_warning ("Rejecting large frequency change of %.2f%%",
+ (delta / c->clocks_per_second) * 100.0);
+ c->log2_clocks_per_frequency_verify = c->log2_clocks_per_second;
+ return;
+ }
+
c->clocks_per_second =
flt_round_nearest ((f64) dtc / (dtr * round_units)) * round_units;
c->seconds_per_clock = 1 / c->clocks_per_second;