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authorMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2009-07-07 11:27:28 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2009-07-07 12:47:33 +0200
commit951ed4d36b77ba9fe1ea08fc3c59d8bb6c9bda32 (patch)
tree870456aff2c513c00608f5416d1b7b440fa5f963 /kernel/hrtimer.c
parentfaf80d62e44dc627efb741f48db50c1858d1667c (diff)
downloadlinux-951ed4d36b77ba9fe1ea08fc3c59d8bb6c9bda32.tar.gz
timekeeping: optimized ktime_get[_ts] for GENERIC_TIME=y
The generic ktime_get function defined in kernel/hrtimer.c is suboptimial
for GENERIC_TIME=y:

 0)               |  ktime_get() {
 0)               |    ktime_get_ts() {
 0)               |      getnstimeofday() {
 0)               |        read_tod_clock() {
 0)   0.601 us    |        }
 0)   1.938 us    |      }
 0)               |      set_normalized_timespec() {
 0)   0.602 us    |      }
 0)   4.375 us    |    }
 0)   5.523 us    |  }

Overall there are two read_seqbegin/read_seqretry loops and a lot of
unnecessary struct timespec calculations. ktime_get returns a nano second
value which is the sum of xtime, wall_to_monotonic and the nano second
delta from the clock source.

ktime_get can be optimized for GENERIC_TIME=y. The new version only calls
clocksource_read:

 0)               |  ktime_get() {
 0)               |    read_tod_clock() {
 0)   0.610 us    |    }
 0)   1.977 us    |  }

It uses a single read_seqbegin/readseqretry loop and just adds everthing
to a nano second value.

ktime_get_ts is optimized in a similar fashion.

[ tglx: added WARN_ON(timekeeping_suspended) as in getnstimeofday() ]

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090707112728.3005244d@skybase>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/hrtimer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/hrtimer.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/hrtimer.c b/kernel/hrtimer.c
index 9002958a96e7..829e0664b72e 100644
--- a/kernel/hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/hrtimer.c
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME
 /**
  * ktime_get - get the monotonic time in ktime_t format
  *
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ ktime_t ktime_get(void)
 	return timespec_to_ktime(now);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get);
+#endif
 
 /**
  * ktime_get_real - get the real (wall-) time in ktime_t format
@@ -106,6 +108,7 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct hrtimer_cpu_base, hrtimer_bases) =
 	}
 };
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME
 /**
  * ktime_get_ts - get the monotonic clock in timespec format
  * @ts:		pointer to timespec variable
@@ -130,6 +133,7 @@ void ktime_get_ts(struct timespec *ts)
 				ts->tv_nsec + tomono.tv_nsec);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ktime_get_ts);
+#endif
 
 /*
  * Get the coarse grained time at the softirq based on xtime and