*/
unsigned max_entries[4];
} urb;
+
+ /**
+ * For the longest time the timestamp frequency for Gen's timestamp counter
+ * could be assumed to be 12.5MHz, where the least significant bit neatly
+ * corresponded to 80 nanoseconds.
+ *
+ * Since Gen9 the numbers aren't so round, with a a frequency of 12MHz for
+ * SKL (or scale factor of 83.33333333) and a frequency of 19200123Hz for
+ * BXT.
+ *
+ * For simplicty to fit with the current code scaling by a single constant
+ * to map from raw timestamps to nanoseconds we now do the conversion in
+ * floating point instead of integer arithmetic.
+ *
+ * In general it's probably worth noting that the documented constants we
+ * have for the per-platform timestamp frequencies aren't perfect and
+ * shouldn't be trusted for scaling and comparing timestamps with a large
+ * delta.
+ *
+ * E.g. with crude testing on my system using the 'correct' scale factor I'm
+ * seeing a drift of ~2 milliseconds per second.
+ */
+ double timebase_scale;
+
/** @} */
};