timekeeping: Restructure the timekeeper some more

Access to time requires to touch two cachelines at minimum

   1) The timekeeper data structure

   2) The clocksource data structure

The access to the clocksource data structure can be avoided as almost
all clocksource implementations ignore the argument to the read
callback, which is a pointer to the clocksource.

But the core needs to touch it to access the members @read and @mask.

So we are better off by copying the @read function pointer and the
@mask from the clocksource to the core data structure itself.

For the most used ktime_get() access all required data including the
@read and @mask copies fits together with the sequence counter into a
single 64 byte cacheline.

For the other time access functions we touch in the current code three
cache lines in the worst case. But with the clocksource data copies we
can reduce that to two adjacent cachelines, which is more efficient
than disjunct cache lines.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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Thomas Gleixner
2014-07-16 21:05:15 +00:00
committed by John Stultz
parent 4a0e637738
commit 6d3aadf3e1
2 changed files with 19 additions and 20 deletions

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struct timekeeper {
/* Current clocksource used for timekeeping. */
struct clocksource *clock;
/* Read function of @clock */
cycle_t (*read)(struct clocksource *cs);
/* Bitmask for two's complement subtraction of non 64bit counters */
cycle_t mask;
/* Last cycle value */
cycle_t cycle_last;
/* NTP adjusted clock multiplier */