linux/arch
Ingo Molnar 0d12cdd5f8 sched: improve sched_clock() performance
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>
2008-11-08 16:48:19 +01:00
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alpha Merge branch 'v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-10-23 10:53:02 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'omap-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 2008-11-06 18:07:03 +00:00
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blackfin container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
cris [CRIS] Remove links from CRIS build 2008-10-31 23:37:57 +01:00
frv container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dvrabel/uwb 2008-10-23 08:20:34 -07:00
ia64 saner FASYNC handling on file close 2008-11-01 09:49:46 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile 2008-10-23 10:05:40 -07:00
m68k proc: move /proc/stram to m68k-specific code 2008-10-23 14:25:35 +04:00
m68knommu container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
mips CHAR: Delete old and now unused M48T35 RTC driver for SGI IP27. 2008-10-30 14:44:35 +00:00
mn10300 mn10300: use bcd2bin/bin2bcd 2008-10-20 08:52:41 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-10-23 10:22:40 -07:00
powerpc powerpc: Fix "unused variable" warning in pci_dlpar.c 2008-11-05 19:59:08 +11:00
s390 [S390] s390: Fix build for !CONFIG_S390_GUEST + CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE 2008-10-28 11:12:06 +01:00
sh sh: fix sh2a cache entry_mask 2008-10-31 16:29:20 +09:00
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um Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev 2008-10-23 10:23:07 -07:00
x86 sched: improve sched_clock() performance 2008-11-08 16:48:19 +01:00
xtensa Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/czankel/xtensa-2.6 2008-10-23 09:16:56 -07:00
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