Re: [ntp:questions] A proposal to use NIC launch time support to improve NTP

2012-12-18 Thread Ulf Samuelsson
Rick Jones skrev 2012-12-13 02:57: It would seem that at least one NIC has the ability to allow one to schedule the time at which a packet will be transmitted. This is called launch time support. Someone in Linux-land has started asking about the prospect of enabling support of that in the

Re: [ntp:questions] A proposal to use NIC launch time support to improve NTP

2012-12-18 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Ulf Samuelsson wrote: In my proposal, I add a new flag to socket.c:sendto. While the launchtime is proposed to configurable using Kconfig, this adds a small performance penalty to every other packet sent over Ethernet. An alternative would be to extend the kernel with a new syscall,

[ntp:questions] Clock Offset

2012-12-18 Thread Mischanko, Edward T
How can my local clock have a negative offset when none of the selected peers have a negative offset? Is it possible? ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] Clock Offset

2012-12-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 18, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Mischanko, Edward T wrote: How can my local clock have a negative offset when none of the selected peers have a negative offset? Is it possible? Sure, it's possible. If your clock started off with a large negative offset and you didn't initially step it at boot

Re: [ntp:questions] A proposal to use NIC launch time support to improve NTP

2012-12-18 Thread Ulf Samuelsson
E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists Null@BlackList.Anitech-Systems.invalid wrote: Ulf Samuelsson wrote: In my proposal, I add a new flag to socket.c:sendto. While the launchtime is proposed to configurable using Kconfig, this adds a small performance penalty to every

Re: [ntp:questions] A proposal to use NIC launch time support to improve NTP

2012-12-18 Thread Ulf Samuelsson
Brian Utterback brian.utterb...@oracle.com wrote: On 12/13/2012 5:00 AM, Jonatan Walck wrote: This is going to be very hard to get it to be useful. Looking at the specs for the card, the timestamp you give is relative to a clock that is internal to the controller, and is only accurate to the

Re: [ntp:questions] A proposal to use NIC launch time support to improve NTP

2012-12-18 Thread E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists
Ulf Samuelsson wrote: BlackLists wrote: Ulf Samuelsson wrote: In my proposal, I add a new flag to socket.c:sendto. While the launchtime is proposed to configurable using Kconfig, this adds a small performance penalty to every other packet sent over Ethernet. An alternative would be to