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* [PATCH] init: skip calibration delay if previously done
@ 2011-05-24 23:19 Sameer Nanda
  2011-06-03 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Sameer Nanda @ 2011-05-24 23:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, ext-phil.2.carmody, Tim.Deegan, jbeulich, snanda
  Cc: linux-kernel, Sameer Nanda

For each CPU, do the calibration delay only once. For subsequent calls,
use the cached per-CPU value of loops_per_jiffy.

This saves about 200ms of resume time on dual core Intel Atom N5xx based
systems. This helps bring down the kernel resume time on such systems from
about 500ms to about 300ms.

Signed-off-by: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org>
---
 init/calibrate.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/calibrate.c b/init/calibrate.c
index 76ac919..47d3408 100644
--- a/init/calibrate.c
+++ b/init/calibrate.c
@@ -183,11 +183,18 @@ recalibrate:
 	return lpj;
 }
 
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, cpu_loops_per_jiffy) = { 0 };
+
 void __cpuinit calibrate_delay(void)
 {
 	static bool printed;
+	int this_cpu = smp_processor_id();
 
-	if (preset_lpj) {
+	if (per_cpu(cpu_loops_per_jiffy, this_cpu)) {
+		loops_per_jiffy = per_cpu(cpu_loops_per_jiffy, this_cpu);
+		pr_info("Calibrating delay loop (skipped) "
+				"already calibrated this CPU previously.. ");
+	} else if (preset_lpj) {
 		loops_per_jiffy = preset_lpj;
 		if (!printed)
 			pr_info("Calibrating delay loop (skipped) "
@@ -205,6 +212,7 @@ void __cpuinit calibrate_delay(void)
 			pr_info("Calibrating delay loop... ");
 		loops_per_jiffy = calibrate_delay_converge();
 	}
+	per_cpu(cpu_loops_per_jiffy, this_cpu) = loops_per_jiffy;
 	if (!printed)
 		pr_cont("%lu.%02lu BogoMIPS (lpj=%lu)\n",
 			loops_per_jiffy/(500000/HZ),
-- 
1.7.3.1


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2011-05-24 23:19 [PATCH] init: skip calibration delay if previously done Sameer Nanda
2011-06-03 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-03 21:08   ` David Daney
2011-06-03 21:45     ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-03 22:00       ` Joe Perches
2011-06-03 22:15       ` Sameer Nanda

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