Re: [PATCH 2/3] ptp: add a software clock based on clock_monotonic_raw

[torbenh <torbenh@gmx.de>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 07:46:39AM +0100, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 11:34:04AM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 18:26 +0100, Torben Hohn wrote:
> > > First version of a software clock. Not very useful yet,
> > > as it doesnt generate events, but at least it allows
> > > for testing the ptp framework without special hardware.
> > 
> > So in the past, I pushed back on Richard for having something similar,
> > as I'm not psyched about duplicating interfaces. However, your
> > implementation is CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW instead of CLOCK_REALTIME and it
> > keeps the adjustments internal, I'm not as opposed.
> 
> (Aha! So it is okay after all ;)
> 
> I do think a software only PHC will make it easier for people to get
> started with the new interface. I have been carrying along such a
> patch privately for my own testing.

can you post your patch then ?
if john likes somthing better in my implementation, we should merge
them.

i will be away for the next week, so its probably up to you.

i am still trying to find out, whether 802.1AS will spec accurate ptp
clocks. i have the feeling that they wont.
the main concern is synchronicity of the clock inside all devices of the
timing domain. that this clock i running at the same frequency as the
wallclock is not important.

here is a pretty confused mail about this:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.jackit/23606

i hope this thread will yield more useful information as it develops.

i am currently acting under the assumption, that a device like this:
http://www.xmos.com/products/reference-designs/avbl2
would need to be the ptp master when the computer doesnt have h/w
timestamping in its NIC.
i am also assuming that the clock in that device would be crappy.

so we wouldnt want to servo CLOCK_REALTIME after that crappy clock.
but we want an instance of that clock as accurate as possible inside 
the computer. so that we can bind streaming apps to this clock.

-- 
torben Hohn