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sys_time() speedup 

Improve performance of sys_time().  sys_time() returns time in seconds, but
it does so by calling do_gettimeofday() and then returning the tv_sec
portion of the GTOD time.  But the data structure "xtime", which is updated
by every timer/scheduler tick, already offers HZ granularity time.

The patch improves the sysbench OLTP macrobenchmark significantly:

2.6.22-rc6:

#threads
   1:        transactions:                        3733   (373.21 per sec.)
   2:        transactions:                        6676   (667.46 per sec.)
   3:        transactions:                        6957   (695.50 per sec.)
   4:        transactions:                        7055   (705.48 per sec.)
   5:        transactions:                        6596   (659.33 per sec.)

2.6.22-rc6 + sys_time.patch:

   1:        transactions:                        4005   (400.47 per sec.)
   2:        transactions:                        7379   (737.77 per sec.)
   3:        transactions:                        7347   (734.49 per sec.)
   4:        transactions:                        7468   (746.65 per sec.)
   5:        transactions:                        7428   (742.47 per sec.)

Mixed API uses of gettimeofday() and time() are guaranteed to be coherent
via the use of a at-most-once-per-second slowpath that updates xtime.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar 2007-07-15 23:41:18 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f482394ccb
commit 4e44f3497d
1 changed files with 24 additions and 8 deletions
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@ -57,14 +57,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sys_tz);
*/
asmlinkage long sys_time(time_t __user * tloc)
{
time_t i;
struct timeval tv;
/*
* We read xtime.tv_sec atomically - it's updated
* atomically by update_wall_time(), so no need to
* even read-lock the xtime seqlock:
*/
time_t i = xtime.tv_sec;
do_gettimeofday(&tv);
i = tv.tv_sec;
smp_rmb(); /* sys_time() results are coherent */
if (tloc) {
if (put_user(i,tloc))
if (put_user(i, tloc))
i = -EFAULT;
}
return i;
@ -373,12 +376,25 @@ void do_gettimeofday (struct timeval *tv)
tv->tv_sec = sec;
tv->tv_usec = usec;
}
/*
* Make sure xtime.tv_sec [returned by sys_time()] always
* follows the gettimeofday() result precisely. This
* condition is extremely unlikely, it can hit at most
* once per second:
*/
if (unlikely(xtime.tv_sec != tv->tv_sec)) {
unsigned long flags;
write_seqlock_irqsave(&xtime_lock, flags);
update_wall_time();
write_sequnlock_irqrestore(&xtime_lock, flags);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_gettimeofday);
#else /* CONFIG_TIME_INTERPOLATION */
#else
#ifndef CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME
/*
* Simulate gettimeofday using do_gettimeofday which only allows a timeval
@ -394,7 +410,7 @@ void getnstimeofday(struct timespec *tv)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(getnstimeofday);
#endif
#endif
#endif /* CONFIG_TIME_INTERPOLATION */
/* Converts Gregorian date to seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00.
* Assumes input in normal date format, i.e. 1980-12-31 23:59:59