diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
index bb3ee942e570..d2e61be35bf6 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
@@ -494,6 +494,13 @@ static int uvc_commit_video(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
  * Clocks and timestamps
  */
 
+/*
+ * The accuracy of the hardware timestamping depends on having enough data to
+ * interpolate between the different clock domains. This value is sof cycles,
+ * this is, milliseconds.
+ */
+#define UVC_MIN_HW_TIMESTAMP_DIFF 100
+
 static inline ktime_t uvc_video_get_time(void)
 {
 	if (uvc_clock_param == CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
@@ -843,13 +850,13 @@ void uvc_video_clock_update(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
 	 * buffer, but RAM is expensive these days, specially the infinitely
 	 * big.
 	 *
-	 * The value of 1/4th of a second was determined by running Android's
-	 * CTS on different devices.
+	 * The value of UVC_MIN_HW_TIMESTAMP_DIFF was determined by running
+	 * Android's CTS on different devices.
 	 *
-	 * dev_sof runs at 1KHz, and we have a fixed point precision of
-	 * 16 bits.
+	 * y1 and y2 are dev_sof with a fixed point precision of 16 bits.
 	 */
-	if (clock->size != clock->count && (y2 - y1) < ((1000 / 4) << 16))
+	if (clock->size != clock->count &&
+	    (y2 - y1) < (UVC_MIN_HW_TIMESTAMP_DIFF << 16))
 		goto done;
 
 	y = (u64)(y2 - y1) * (1ULL << 31) + (u64)y1 * (u64)x2