Re: [PATCH] ia64: disable preemption in udelay()

[Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:42:52PM -0800, hawkes@sgi.com wrote:
> +
> +#define SMALLUSECS 100

John, I did not see your posts until this had already made it out.
I would think that the folks running realtime applications would expect
udelay to hold off for even shorter periods of time.  I would expect
something along the line of 20 or 25 uSec.

> +
> +void
> +udelay (unsigned long usecs)
> +{
> +	unsigned long start;
> +	unsigned long cycles;
> +	unsigned long smallusecs;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Execute the non-preemptible delay loop (because the ITC might
> +	 * not be synchronized between CPUS) in relatively short time
> +	 * chunks, allowing preemption between the chunks.
> +	 */
> +	while (usecs > 0) {
> +		smallusecs = (usecs > SMALLUSECS) ? SMALLUSECS : usecs;
> +		preempt_disable();
> +		cycles = smallusecs*local_cpu_data->cyc_per_usec;
> +		start = ia64_get_itc();
> +
> +		while (ia64_get_itc() - start < cycles)
> +			cpu_relax();
> +
> +		preempt_enable();
> +		usecs -= smallusecs;
> +	}
> +}

How much drift would you expect from this?  I have not tried this, but
what about something more along the lines of:

#define MAX_USECS_WHILE_NOT_PREMPTIBLE	20

void
udelay (unsigned long usecs)
{
	unsigned long next, timeout;
	long last_processor = -1;


	/*
	 * Execute the non-preemptible delay loop (because the ITC might
	 * not be synchronized between CPUS) in relatively short time
	 * chunks, allowing preemption between the chunks.
	 */
	while (usecs > 0) {
		next = min(usecs, MAX_USECS_WHILE_NOT_PREMPTIBLE);
		preempt_disable;
		if (last_processor != smp_processor_id()) {
			last_processor = smp_processor_id();
			timeout = ia64_get_itc();
		}
		timeout += next * local_cpu_data->cyc_per_usec;
		while (ia64_get_itc() < timeout)
			cpu_relax();

		preempt_enable;
		usecs -= next;
	}
}