Add a function to add new selection options or remove existing options
specified in the configuration for both NTP sources and reference
clocks.
Provide a pair of IP address and reference ID to identify the source
depending on the type. Find the source directly in the array of sources
instead of going through the NSR hashtable for NTP sources to not
complicate it unnecessarily.
Remove stratum from the NTP sample and update it together with the leap
status. This enables a faster update when samples are dropped by the NTP
filters.
When authentication is enabled for an NTP source, unauthenticated NTP
sources need to be disabled or limited in selection. That might be
difficult to do when the configuration comes from different sources
(e.g. networking scripts adding servers from DHCP).
Define four modes for the source selection to consider authentication:
require, prefer, mix, ignore. In different modes different selection
options (require, trust, noselect) are added to authenticated and
unauthenticated sources.
The mode can be selected by the authselectmode directive. The mix mode
is the default. The ignore mode enables the old behavior, where all
sources are used exactly as specified in the configuration.
Refactor the code to allow the selection options of the current sources
to be modified when other sources are added and removed. Also, make the
authentication status of each source available to the code which makes
the modifications.
Remove leap status from the NTP sample and set it independently from
the sample accumulation in order to accept a leap second sooner when
samples are filtered.
The reset command drops all measurements and switches the reference to
the unsynchronised state. This command can help chronyd with recovery
when the measurements are known to be no longer valid or accurate, e.g.
due to moving the computer to a different network, or resuming the
computer from a low-power state (which resets the system clock).
If the minimum delay is known (in a static network configuration), it
can replace the measured minimum from the register. This should improve
the stability of corrections for asymmetric jitter, sample weighting and
maxdelay* tests.
When chronyd is starting, after the point where dump files are loaded,
remove all files in the dump directory that match the naming scheme used
for dump files. This prevents loading stale dump files that were not
saved in the latest run of chronyd.
Replace struct timeval with struct timespec as the main data type for
timestamps. This will allow the NTP code to work with timestamps in
nanosecond resolution.
The minsamples and maxsamples directives now set the default value,
which can be overriden for individual sources in the server/peer/pool
and refclock directives.
Add new functions to change source's reference ID/address and reset the
instance. Use that instead of destroying and creating a new instance
when the NTP address is changed.
Don't stop online burst for unreachable sources until sending succeeds.
This is mainly useful with iburst when chronyd is started before the
network is configured.
When source is set as active, it's receiving reachability updates (e.g.
offline NTP sources are not active).
Also add function to count active sources.
Explicitly set the number of iburst samples to the size of the register
to make sure there are at least 7 reachability updates and the
initstepslew mode can be ended.
Local reference is now updated only when a new source is selected or
match_addr is equal to the selected source, match_addr 0 is no longer
treated specially.
Add new flag to source struct to indicate when source is selectable
(packets with good headers are received) and use a reachability
register for last 8 samples instead of the reachable flag. Source
drivers now provide only reachability updates.
Require that the ratio of the increase in delay from the minimum one in
the stats data register to the standard deviation of the offsets in the
register is less than maxdelaydevratio or the difference between
measured offset and predicted offset is larger than the increase in
delay. In the allowed delay increase is included also skew and maximum
clock frequency error.
maxdelaydevratio is 10.0 by default.
Instead of following skew changes, adjust polling interval so that the
number of measurements used in the regression algorithm remains close to
a target value. It can be configured with a new polltarget option
(6 by default).
This is a verbatim copy of the files at that stage of the repository that was
built from the CVS import. It allows future development to see a bit of recent
history, but without carrying around the baggage going back to 1997. If that
is really required, git grafts can be used.