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Denys Vlasenko
Denys Vlasenko
2019-02-15
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ntpd: increase SLEW_THRESHOLD from 0.125 to 0.5

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Architecture: x86_64-linux-gnu Compiler: gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04.3) 11.4.0

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networking/ntpd.c+4 -5
@@ -177,12 +177,11 @@
*/
#define STEP_THRESHOLD 1
/* Slew threshold (sec): adjtimex() won't accept offsets larger than this.
- * Using exact power of 2 (1/8) results in smaller code
+ * Using exact power of 2 (1/8, 1/2 etc) results in smaller code
*/
-#define SLEW_THRESHOLD 0.125
-//^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ TODO: man adjtimex about tmx.offset:
-// "Since Linux 2.6.26, the supplied value is clamped to the range (-0.5s, +0.5s)"
-// - can use this larger value instead?
+#define SLEW_THRESHOLD 0.5
+// ^^^^ used to be 0.125.
+// Since Linux 2.6.26 (circa 2006), kernel accepts (-0.5s, +0.5s) range
/* Stepout threshold (sec). std ntpd uses 900 (11 mins (!)) */
//UNUSED: #define WATCH_THRESHOLD 128