Impact: remove unused variable
I forgot to remove the now unused "cycles_t cycles" parameter from
vget_cycles() - which triggers build warnings as tsc.h is included
in a number of files.
Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Move rdtsc_barrier() use to vsyscall_64.c where it's relied on,
and point out its role in the context of its use.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
in scheduler-intense workloads native_read_tsc() overhead accounts for
20% of the system overhead:
659567 system_call 41222.9375
686796 schedule 435.7843
718382 __switch_to 665.1685
823875 switch_mm 4526.7857
1883122 native_read_tsc 55385.9412
9761990 total 2.8468
this is large part due to the rdtsc_barrier() that is done before
and after reading the TSC.
But sched_clock() is not a precise clock in the GTOD sense, using such
barriers is completely pointless. So remove the barriers and only use
them in vget_cycles().
This improves lat_ctx performance by about 5%.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
