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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-26 20:16:58 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-02-26 21:20:25 +0100
commit83ce400928680a6c8123d492684b27857f5a2d95 (patch)
tree384dfa725400a13b335204baa819a8741c47e0c4 /kernel/sched_clock.c
parentb342501cd31e5546d0c9ca8ceff5ded1832f9e5b (diff)
x86: set X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE
If the TSC is constant and non-stop, also set it reliable. (We will turn this off in DMI quirks for multi-chassis systems) The performance number on a 16-way Nehalem system running 32 tasks that context-switch between each other is significant: sched_clock_stable=0 sched_clock_stable=1 .................... .................... 22.456925 million/sec 24.306972 million/sec [+8.2%] lmbench's "lat_ctx -s 0 2" goes from 0.63 microseconds to 0.59 microseconds - a 6.7% increase in context-switching performance. Perfstat of 1 million pipe context switches between two tasks: Performance counter stats for './pipe-test-1m': [before] [after] ............ ............ 37621.421089 36436.848378 task clock ticks (msecs) 0 0 CPU migrations (events) 2000274 2000189 context switches (events) 194 193 pagefaults (events) 8433799643 8171016416 CPU cycles (events) -3.21% 8370133368 8180999694 instructions (events) -2.31% 4158565 3895941 cache references (events) -6.74% 44312 46264 cache misses (events) 2349.287976 2279.362465 wall-time (msecs) -3.06% The speedup comes straight from the reduction in the instruction count. sched_clock_cpu() got simpler and the whole workload thus executes faster. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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