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ffclock(4)

FFCLOCK(4)               BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual               FFCLOCK(4)

NAME
     FFCLOCK — Feed-forward system clock

SYNOPSIS
     options FFCLOCK

DESCRIPTION
     The ntpd(8) daemon has been the dominant solution for system clock syn‐
     chronisation for many years, which has in turn influenced the design of
     the system clock.  The ntpd daemon implements a feedback control algo‐
     rithm which has been demonstrated to perform poorly in common use cases.

     Feed-forward clock synchronisation algorithms implemented by an appropri‐
     ate daemon, in concert with the FFCLOCK kernel support, have been shown
     to provide highly robust and accurate clock synchronisation.  In addition
     to time keeping, the FFCLOCK kernel mechanism provides new timestamping
     capabilities and the ability to use specialised clocks.  Feed-forward
     synchronisation is also very well suited for virtualised environments,
     reducing the overhead of timekeeping in guests and ensuring continued
     smooth operation of the system clock during guest live migration.

     The FFCLOCK kernel support provides feed-forward timestamping functions
     within the kernel and system calls to support feed-forward synchronisa‐
     tion daemons (see ffclock(2)).

   Kernel Options
     The following kernel configuration options are related to FFCLOCK:

     FFCLOCK  Enable feed-forward clock support.

   Configuration
     When feed-forward clock support is compiled into the kernel, multiple
     system clocks become available to choose from.  System clock configura‐
     tion is possible via the kern.sysclock sysctl(8) tree which provides the
     following variables:

           kern.sysclock.active
                 Name of the current active system clock which is serving
                 time.  Set to one of the names in kern.sysclock.available in
                 order to change the default active system clock.

           kern.sysclock.available
                 Lists the names of available system clocks (read-only).

     Feed-forward system clock configuration is possible via the
     kern.sysclock.ffclock sysctl tree which provides the following variables:

           kern.sysclock.ffclock.version
                 Feed-forward clock kernel version (read-only).

           kern.sysclock.ffclock.ffcounter_bypass
                 Use reliable hardware timecounter as the feed-forward
                 counter.  Will eventually be useful for virtualised environ‐
                 ment like xen(4), but currently does nothing.

SEE ALSO
     clock_gettime(2), ffclock(2), bpf(4), timecounters(4), sysctl(8)

HISTORY
     Feed-forward clock support first appeared in FreeBSD 10.0.

AUTHORS
     The feed-forward clock support was written by Julien Ridoux
     <jridoux@unimelb.edu.au> in collaboration with Darryl Veitch
     <dveitch@unimelb.edu.au> at the University of Melbourne under sponsorship
     from the FreeBSD Foundation.

     This manual page was written by Julien Ridoux <jridoux@unimelb.edu.au>
     and Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@FreeBSD.org>.

BSD                            December 1, 2011                            BSD
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