ntpd: decrease INITIAL_SAMPLES from 4 to 3

This reduces initial traffic to NTP servers when a lot of devices boot at once.

Log inspection tells me we agressively burst-poll servers about 5 times
at startup, even though we usually already update clock after second replies.
INITIAL_SAMPLES can probably be even lower, e.g. 2, but let's be conservative
when changing this stuff.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/networking/ntpd.c b/networking/ntpd.c
index 9c15999f3..caf5cc299 100644
--- a/networking/ntpd.c
+++ b/networking/ntpd.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
  *   datapoints after the step.
  */
 
-#define INITIAL_SAMPLES    4    /* how many samples do we want for init */
+#define INITIAL_SAMPLES    3    /* how many samples do we want for init */
 #define MIN_FREQHOLD      10    /* adjust offset, but not freq in this many first adjustments */
 #define BAD_DELAY_GROWTH   4    /* drop packet if its delay grew by more than this factor */
 
@@ -223,7 +223,16 @@
 #define MIN_SELECTED    1       /* minimum intersection survivors */
 #define MIN_CLUSTERED   3       /* minimum cluster survivors */
 
-#define MAXDRIFT        0.000500 /* frequency drift we can correct (500 PPM) */
+/* Correct frequency ourself (0) or let kernel do it (1)? */
+#define USING_KERNEL_PLL_LOOP 1
+// /* frequency drift we can correct (500 PPM) */
+// #define MAXDRIFT        0.000500
+// /* Compromise Allan intercept (sec). doc uses 1500, std ntpd uses 512 */
+// #define ALLAN           512
+// /* PLL loop gain */
+// #define PLL             65536
+// /* FLL loop gain [why it depends on MAXPOLL??] */
+// #define FLL             (MAXPOLL + 1)
 
 /* Poll-adjust threshold.
  * When we see that offset is small enough compared to discipline jitter,
@@ -239,12 +248,6 @@
  */
 #define POLLADJ_GATE    4
 #define TIMECONST_HACK_GATE 2
-/* Compromise Allan intercept (sec). doc uses 1500, std ntpd uses 512 */
-#define ALLAN           512
-/* PLL loop gain */
-#define PLL             65536
-/* FLL loop gain [why it depends on MAXPOLL??] */
-#define FLL             (MAXPOLL + 1)
 /* Parameter averaging constant */
 #define AVG             4
 
@@ -372,9 +375,6 @@ typedef struct {
         char             p_hostname[1];
 } peer_t;
 
-
-#define USING_KERNEL_PLL_LOOP 1
-
 enum {
         OPT_n = (1 << 0),
         OPT_q = (1 << 1),
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ struct globals {
          */
 #define G_precision_exp  -9
         /*
-         * G_precision_exp is used only for construction outgoing packets.
+         * G_precision_exp is used only for constructing outgoing packets.
          * It's ok to set G_precision_sec to a slightly different value
          * (One which is "nicer looking" in logs).
          * Exact value would be (1.0 / (1 << (- G_precision_exp))):
@@ -484,7 +484,6 @@ struct globals {
 };
 #define G (*ptr_to_globals)
 
-
 #define VERB1 if (MAX_VERBOSE && G.verbose)
 #define VERB2 if (MAX_VERBOSE >= 2 && G.verbose >= 2)
 #define VERB3 if (MAX_VERBOSE >= 3 && G.verbose >= 3)
@@ -989,7 +988,6 @@ send_query_to_peer(peer_t *p)
         set_next(p, RESPONSE_INTERVAL);
 }
 
-
 /* Note that there is no provision to prevent several run_scripts
  * to be started in quick succession. In fact, it happens rather often
  * if initial syncronization results in a step.
@@ -1767,7 +1765,6 @@ update_local_clock(peer_t *p)
         return 1; /* "ok to increase poll interval" */
 }
 
-
 /*
  * We've got a new reply packet from a peer, process it
  * (helpers first)