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authorSantosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>2017-10-16 07:49:14 +0200
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2017-12-04 05:01:09 +0100
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parentps3: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue (diff)
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powerpc/vdso64: Add support for CLOCK_{REALTIME/MONOTONIC}_COARSE
Current vDSO64 implementation does not have support for coarse clocks (CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE), for which it falls back to system call, increasing the response time, vDSO implementation reduces the cycle time. Below is a benchmark of the difference in execution times. (Non-coarse clocks are also included just for completion) clock-gettime-realtime: syscall: 172 nsec/call clock-gettime-realtime: libc: 28 nsec/call clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 22 nsec/call clock-gettime-monotonic: syscall: 171 nsec/call clock-gettime-monotonic: libc: 30 nsec/call clock-gettime-monotonic: vdso: 25 nsec/call clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: syscall: 153 nsec/call clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: libc: 16 nsec/call clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 10 nsec/call clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: syscall: 167 nsec/call clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: libc: 17 nsec/call clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 11 nsec/call CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Santosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
index 6b958414b4e0..3f6316bcde4e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c
@@ -396,6 +396,8 @@ int main(void)
/* Other bits used by the vdso */
DEFINE(CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_REALTIME);
DEFINE(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_MONOTONIC);
+ DEFINE(CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE, CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE);
+ DEFINE(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE);
DEFINE(NSEC_PER_SEC, NSEC_PER_SEC);
DEFINE(CLOCK_REALTIME_RES, MONOTONIC_RES_NSEC);