Re: [RFC PATCH 07/30] cputime: Convert kcpustat to nsecs

[Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 19:23:37 +0100
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:

> Kernel cpu stats are stored in cputime_t which is an architecture
> defined type, and hence a bit opaque and requiring accessors and mutators
> for any operation.
> 
> Converting them to nsecs simplifies the code a little bit.

Quite honestly I do not see much of an improvement here, on set of
functions (cputime_to_xxx) gets replaced by another (nsecs_to_xxx).

On the contrary for s390 I see a degradation, consider a hunk like
this:

> @@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ static inline u64 get_cpu_idle_time_jiffy(unsigned int cpu, u64 *wall)
> 
>  	idle_time = cur_wall_time - busy_time;
>  	if (wall)
> -		*wall = cputime_to_usecs(cur_wall_time);
> +		*wall = div_u64(cur_wall_time, NSEC_PER_USEC);
> 
> -	return cputime_to_usecs(idle_time);
> +	return div_u64(idle_time, NSEC_PER_USEC);
>  }
> 
>  u64 get_cpu_idle_time(unsigned int cpu, u64 *wall, int io_busy)

For s390 cputime_to_usecs is a shift, with the new code we now have a division.
Fortunately this is in a piece of code that s390 does not use..

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