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Ingo Molnar f20bf61256 time: introduce xtime_seconds 
improve performance of sys_time(). sys_time() returns time in seconds,
but it does so by calling do_gettimeofday() and then returning the
tv_sec portion of the GTOD time. But the data structure "xtime", which
is updated by every timer/scheduler tick, already offers HZ granularity
time.

the patch improves the sysbench oltp macrobenchmark by 4-5% on an AMD
dual-core system:

v2.6.23:

#threads

   1:     transactions:                        4073   (407.23 per sec.)
   2:     transactions:                        8530   (852.81 per sec.)
   3:     transactions:                        8321   (831.88 per sec.)
   4:     transactions:                        8407   (840.58 per sec.)
   5:     transactions:                        8070   (806.74 per sec.)

v2.6.23 + sys_time-speedup.patch:

   1:     transactions:                        4281   (428.09 per sec.)
   2:     transactions:                        8910   (890.85 per sec.)
   3:     transactions:                        8659   (865.79 per sec.)
   4:     transactions:                        8676   (867.34 per sec.)
   5:     transactions:                        8532   (852.91 per sec.)

and by 4-5% on an Intel dual-core system too:

2.6.23:

  1:     transactions:                        4560   (455.94 per sec.)
  2:     transactions:                        10094  (1009.30 per sec.)
  3:     transactions:                        9755   (975.36 per sec.)
  4:     transactions:                        9859   (985.78 per sec.)
  5:     transactions:                        9701   (969.72 per sec.)

2.6.23 + sys_time-speedup.patch:

  1:     transactions:                        4779   (477.84 per sec.)
  2:     transactions:                        10103  (1010.14 per sec.)
  3:     transactions:                        10141  (1013.93 per sec.)
  4:     transactions:                        10371  (1036.89 per sec.)
  5:     transactions:                        10178  (1017.50 per sec.)

(the more CPUs the system has, the more speedup this patch gives for
this particular workload.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 10:01:50 -07:00
..
irq
request_irq: fix DEBUG_SHIRQ handling
2007-08-31 01:42:23 -07:00
power
hibernation doesn't even build on frv - tons of helpers are missing
2007-09-26 09:22:04 -07:00
time
time: introduce xtime_seconds
2007-10-16 10:01:50 -07:00
.gitignore
gitignore: ignore more generated files
2006-01-03 11:35:26 +01:00
acct.c
Cleanup non-arch xtime uses, use get_seconds() or current_kernel_time().
2007-07-25 10:09:20 -07:00
audit.c
[NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
2007-10-10 21:15:29 -07:00
audit.h
Audit: add TTY input auditing
2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
auditfilter.c
[PATCH] allow audit filtering on bit & operations
2007-07-22 09:57:02 -04:00
auditsc.c
SUNRPC: Convert rpc_pipefs to use the generic filesystem notification hooks
2007-10-09 17:15:26 -04:00
capability.c
[PATCH] pid: replace do/while_each_task_pid with do/while_each_pid_task
2007-02-12 09:48:32 -08:00
compat.c
signal/timer/event: timerfd compat code
2007-05-11 08:29:36 -07:00
configs.c
use simple_read_from_buffer in kernel/
2007-05-09 12:30:49 -07:00
cpu.c
PM: Fix dependencies of CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_HIBERNATION
2007-08-31 01:42:22 -07:00
cpuset.c
cpuset: remove sched domain hooks from cpusets
2007-10-16 09:43:09 -07:00
delayacct.c
sched: clean up schedstats, cnt -> count
2007-10-15 17:00:12 +02:00
die_notifier.c
move die notifier handling to common code
2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
dma.c
[PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification
2006-12-07 08:39:46 -08:00
exec_domain.c
Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
exit.c
sched: guest CPU accounting: add guest-CPU /proc/<pid>/stat fields
2007-10-15 17:00:19 +02:00
extable.c
[PATCH] symbol_put_addr() locks kernel
2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00
fork.c
sched: guest CPU accounting: add guest-CPU /proc/<pid>/stat fields
2007-10-15 17:00:19 +02:00
futex_compat.c
robust futex thread exit race
2007-10-01 07:52:23 -07:00
futex.c
robust futex thread exit race
2007-10-01 07:52:23 -07:00
hrtimer.c
[KTIME]: Introduce ktime_sub_ns and ktime_sub_us
2007-10-10 16:48:12 -07:00
itimer.c
The scheduled -EINVAL for invalid timevals in setitimer
2007-05-08 11:15:13 -07:00
kallsyms.c
kallsyms: make KSYM_NAME_LEN include space for trailing '\0'
2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
Kconfig.hz
[PATCH] HZ: 300Hz support
2006-12-07 08:39:36 -08:00
Kconfig.preempt
[PATCH] sched: arch preempt notifier mechanism
2007-07-26 13:40:43 +02:00
kexec.c
kdump/kexec: calculate note size at compile time
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
kfifo.c
is_power_of_2: kernel/kfifo.c
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
kmod.c
Restore call_usermodehelper_pipe() behaviour
2007-09-11 17:21:20 -07:00
kprobes.c
kprobes: support kretprobe blacklist
2007-10-16 09:43:10 -07:00
ksysfs.c
sched: group scheduling, sysfs tunables
2007-10-15 17:00:14 +02:00
kthread.c
kthread: silence bogus section mismatch warning
2007-07-31 15:39:42 -07:00
latency.c
[PATCH] severing module.h->sched.h
2006-12-04 02:00:22 -05:00
lockdep_internals.h
[PATCH] lockdep: more chains
2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep: Avoid /proc/lockdep & lock_stat infinite output
2007-10-11 22:11:11 +02:00
lockdep.c
lockdep: syscall exit check
2007-10-11 22:11:12 +02:00
Makefile
user namespace: add the framework
2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
module.c
Fix Off-by-one in /sys/module/*/refcnt
2007-08-22 14:35:35 -07:00
mutex-debug.c
[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h
2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
mutex-debug.h
[PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging
2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
mutex.c
lockdep: fixup mutex annotations
2007-10-11 22:11:12 +02:00
mutex.h
[PATCH] lockdep: prove mutex locking correctness
2006-07-03 15:27:04 -07:00
nsproxy.c
[NET]: Add network namespace clone & unshare support.
2007-10-10 16:52:46 -07:00
panic.c
Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPS
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
params.c
modules: better error messages when modules fail to load due to a sysfs problem.
2007-07-30 14:25:23 -07:00
pid.c
namespace: ensure clone_flags are always stored in an unsigned long
2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c
sched: make posix-cpu-timers use CFS's accounting information
2007-07-09 18:51:58 +02:00
posix-timers.c
more low-hanging fruits - kernel, fs, lib signedness
2007-10-14 12:41:52 -07:00
printk.c
slow down printk during boot
2007-10-16 09:42:49 -07:00
profile.c
Memoryless nodes: Allow profiling data to fall back to other nodes
2007-10-16 09:42:58 -07:00
ptrace.c
m32r: convert to generic sys_ptrace
2007-10-16 09:43:04 -07:00
rcupdate.c
lockdep: annotate rcu_read_{,un}lock{,_bh}
2007-10-11 22:11:12 +02:00
rcutorture.c
Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
relay.c
Fix a use after free bug in kernel->userspace relay file support
2007-07-31 15:39:42 -07:00
resource.c
memory unplug: memory hotplug cleanup
2007-10-16 09:43:01 -07:00
rtmutex_common.h
FUTEX: Tidy up the code
2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c
FUTEX: Tidy up the code
2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.h
[PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging
2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
rtmutex-tester.c
Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
rtmutex.c
FUTEX: Tidy up the code
2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
rtmutex.h
[PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging
2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
rwsem.c
lockstat: hook into spinlock_t, rwlock_t, rwsem and mutex
2007-07-19 10:04:49 -07:00
sched_debug.c
Make scheduler debug file operations const
2007-10-15 17:00:19 +02:00
sched_fair.c
sched: reintroduce cache-hot affinity
2007-10-15 17:00:18 +02:00
sched_idletask.c
sched: mark scheduling classes as const
2007-10-15 17:00:12 +02:00
sched_rt.c
sched: tidy up SCHED_RR
2007-10-15 17:00:13 +02:00
sched_stats.h
sched: clean up schedstats, cnt -> count
2007-10-15 17:00:12 +02:00
sched.c
cpuset: remove sched domain hooks from cpusets
2007-10-16 09:43:09 -07:00
seccomp.c
make seccomp zerocost in schedule
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
signal.c
fix bogus reporting of signals by audit
2007-10-07 16:28:43 -07:00
softirq.c
[KERNEL]: Unexport raise_softirq_irqoff
2007-10-10 16:49:18 -07:00
softlockup.c
Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
spinlock.c
lockstat: hook into spinlock_t, rwlock_t, rwsem and mutex
2007-07-19 10:04:49 -07:00
srcu.c
[PATCH] SRCU: report out-of-memory errors
2006-10-04 07:55:30 -07:00
stacktrace.c
[PATCH] lockdep: stacktrace subsystem, core
2006-07-03 15:27:02 -07:00
stop_machine.c
Fix stop_machine_run problem with naughty real time process
2007-07-16 09:05:41 -07:00
sys_ni.c
diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures
2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
sys.c
Fix SMP poweroff hangs
2007-10-01 07:52:23 -07:00
sysctl.c
hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl
2007-10-16 09:43:02 -07:00
taskstats.c
taskstats: add context-switch counters
2007-07-16 09:05:46 -07:00
time.c
time: introduce xtime_seconds
2007-10-16 10:01:50 -07:00
timer.c
Pull ia64-clocksource into release branch
2007-07-20 11:26:47 -07:00
tsacct.c
Cleanup non-arch xtime uses, use get_seconds() or current_kernel_time().
2007-07-25 10:09:20 -07:00
uid16.c
header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
user_namespace.c
Fix user namespace exiting OOPs
2007-09-19 11:24:18 -07:00
user.c
sched: generate uevents for user creation/destruction
2007-10-15 17:00:18 +02:00
utsname_sysctl.c
remove CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS
2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
utsname.c
Fix UTS corruption during clone(CLONE_NEWUTS)
2007-09-19 11:24:17 -07:00
wait.c
Fix occurrences of "the the "
2007-05-09 08:57:56 +02:00
workqueue.c
fix bogus hotplug cpu warning
2007-08-27 10:27:48 -07:00