Dear Lakshmi, Thank you for your patch series. Am 19.03.24 um 14:05 schrieb lakshmi.sowjanya.d@xxxxxxxxx:
From: Lakshmi Sowjanya D <lakshmi.sowjanya.d@xxxxxxxxx> The goal of the PPS(Pulse Per Second) hardware/software is to generate a
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signal from the system on a wire so that some third-party hardware can observe that signal and judge how close the system's time is to another system or piece of hardware. Existing methods (like parallel ports) require software to flip a bit at just the right time to create a PPS signal. Many things can prevent software from doing this precisely. This (Timed I/O) method is better because software only "arms" the hardware in advance and then depends on the hardware to "fire" and flip the signal at just the right time. To generate a PPS signal with this new hardware, the kernel wakes up twice a second, once for 1->0 edge and other for the 0->1 edge. It does this shortly (~10ms) before the actual change in the signal needs to be made. It computes the TSC value at which edge will happen, convert to a value hardware understands and program this value to Timed I/O hardware. The actual edge transition happens without any further action from the kernel. The result here is a signal coming out of the system that is roughly 1,000 times more accurate than the old methods. If the system is heavily loaded, the difference in accuracy is larger in old methods. Application Interface: The API to use Timed I/O is very simple. It is enabled and disabled by writing a '1' or '0' value to the sysfs enable attribute associated with the Timed I/O PPS device. Each Timed I/O pin is represented by a PPS device. When enabled, a pulse-per-second(PPS) synchronized with the
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system clock is continuously produced on the Timed I/O pin, otherwise it is pulled low. The Timed I/O signal on the motherboard is enabled in the BIOS setup.
It’d be great if you documented your test setup including the name of the system firmware option.
Kind regards, Paul
