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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] sched_clock: record TSC after gtod
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:15:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080709041825.355150582@goodmis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080709041530.668120406@goodmis.org

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To read the gtod we need to grab the xtime lock for read. Reading the gtod
before the TSC can cause a bigger gab if the xtime lock is contended.

This patch simply reverses the order to read the TSC after the gtod.
The locking in the reading of the gtod handles any barriers one might
think is needed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/sched_clock.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-tip.git/kernel/sched_clock.c
===================================================================
--- linux-tip.git.orig/kernel/sched_clock.c	2008-07-08 11:03:05.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-tip.git/kernel/sched_clock.c	2008-07-08 16:53:34.000000000 -0400
@@ -237,8 +237,8 @@ void sched_clock_tick(void)
 
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!irqs_disabled());
 
-	now = sched_clock();
 	now_gtod = ktime_to_ns(ktime_get());
+	now = sched_clock();
 
 	__raw_spin_lock(&scd->lock);
 	__update_sched_clock(scd, now, NULL);

-- 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-09  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-09  4:15 [PATCH 0/3] [PATCH] more sched_clock updates Steven Rostedt
2008-07-09  4:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] sched_clock: only update deltas with local reads Steven Rostedt
2008-07-09  4:15 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2008-07-09  4:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] sched_clock: and multiplier for TSC to gtod drift Steven Rostedt
2008-07-11 13:56 ` [PATCH 0/3] [PATCH] more sched_clock updates Ingo Molnar

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