kernel-hacking-2024-linux-s.../kernel/time
Martin Schwidefsky 951ed4d36b 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>
2009-07-07 12:47:33 +02:00
..
clockevents.c Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-15 10:06:19 -07:00
clocksource.c clocksource: prevent selection of low resolution clocksourse also for nohz=on 2009-06-13 12:00:26 +02:00
jiffies.c
Kconfig
Makefile
ntp.c
tick-broadcast.c
tick-common.c
tick-internal.h
tick-oneshot.c clocksource: prevent selection of low resolution clocksourse also for nohz=on 2009-06-13 12:00:26 +02:00
tick-sched.c Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-20 10:51:44 -07:00
timecompare.c
timekeeping.c timekeeping: optimized ktime_get[_ts] for GENERIC_TIME=y 2009-07-07 12:47:33 +02:00
timer_list.c
timer_stats.c timer stats: Optimize by adding quick check to avoid function calls 2009-06-24 11:15:09 +02:00