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* [PATCH 1/3 UPDATE] common implementation of iterative div/mod
@ 2008-05-14 15:47 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge @ 2008-05-14 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List, Ingo Molnar, Thomas Gleixner,
	john stultz

We have a few instances of the open-coded iterative div/mod loop, used
when we don't expcet the dividend to be much bigger than the divisor.
Unfortunately modern gcc's have the tendency to strength "reduce" this
into a full mod operation, which isn't necessarily any faster, and
even if it were, doesn't exist if gcc implements it in libgcc.

The workaround is to put a dummy asm statement in the loop to prevent
gcc from performing the transformation.

This patch creates a single implementation of this loop, and uses it
to replace the open-coded versions I know about.

[ Andrew: this patch has your fixes folded into it. ]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>

---
 arch/x86/xen/time.c    |   13 +++----------
 include/linux/math64.h |    2 ++
 include/linux/time.h   |   11 ++---------
 lib/div64.c            |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

===================================================================
--- a/arch/x86/xen/time.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/time.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <linux/clocksource.h>
 #include <linux/clockchips.h>
 #include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
+#include <linux/math64.h>
 
 #include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
 #include <asm/xen/hypercall.h>
@@ -150,11 +151,7 @@
 	if (stolen < 0)
 		stolen = 0;
 
-	ticks = 0;
-	while (stolen >= NS_PER_TICK) {
-		ticks++;
-		stolen -= NS_PER_TICK;
-	}
+	ticks = iter_div_u64_rem(stolen, NS_PER_TICK, &stolen);
 	__get_cpu_var(residual_stolen) = stolen;
 	account_steal_time(NULL, ticks);
 
@@ -166,11 +163,7 @@
 	if (blocked < 0)
 		blocked = 0;
 
-	ticks = 0;
-	while (blocked >= NS_PER_TICK) {
-		ticks++;
-		blocked -= NS_PER_TICK;
-	}
+	ticks = iter_div_u64_rem(blocked, NS_PER_TICK, &blocked);
 	__get_cpu_var(residual_blocked) = blocked;
 	account_steal_time(idle_task(smp_processor_id()), ticks);
 }
===================================================================
--- a/include/linux/math64.h
+++ b/include/linux/math64.h
@@ -81,4 +81,6 @@
 }
 #endif
 
+u32 iter_div_u64_rem(u64 dividend, u32 divisor, u64 *remainder);
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_MATH64_H */
===================================================================
--- a/include/linux/time.h
+++ b/include/linux/time.h
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 # include <linux/cache.h>
 # include <linux/seqlock.h>
+# include <linux/math64.h>
 #endif
 
 #ifndef _STRUCT_TIMESPEC
@@ -172,15 +173,7 @@
  */
 static inline void timespec_add_ns(struct timespec *a, u64 ns)
 {
-	ns += a->tv_nsec;
-	while(unlikely(ns >= NSEC_PER_SEC)) {
-		/* The following asm() prevents the compiler from
-		 * optimising this loop into a modulo operation.  */
-		asm("" : "+r"(ns));
-
-		ns -= NSEC_PER_SEC;
-		a->tv_sec++;
-	}
+	a->tv_sec += iter_div_u64_rem(a->tv_nsec + ns, NSEC_PER_SEC, &ns);
 	a->tv_nsec = ns;
 }
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
===================================================================
--- a/lib/div64.c
+++ b/lib/div64.c
@@ -98,3 +98,26 @@
 #endif
 
 #endif /* BITS_PER_LONG == 32 */
+
+/*
+ * Iterative div/mod for use when dividend is not expected to be much
+ * bigger than divisor.
+ */
+u32 iter_div_u64_rem(u64 dividend, u32 divisor, u64 *remainder)
+{
+	u32 ret = 0;
+
+	while (dividend >= divisor) {
+		/* The following asm() prevents the compiler from
+		   optimising this loop into a modulo operation.  */
+		asm("" : "+rm"(dividend));
+
+		dividend -= divisor;
+		ret++;
+	}
+
+	*remainder = dividend;
+
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(iter_div_u64_rem);



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