From 83ce400928680a6c8123d492684b27857f5a2d95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:16:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86: set X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE If the TSC is constant and non-stop, also set it reliable. (We will turn this off in DMI quirks for multi-chassis systems) The performance number on a 16-way Nehalem system running 32 tasks that context-switch between each other is significant: sched_clock_stable=0 sched_clock_stable=1 .................... .................... 22.456925 million/sec 24.306972 million/sec [+8.2%] lmbench's "lat_ctx -s 0 2" goes from 0.63 microseconds to 0.59 microseconds - a 6.7% increase in context-switching performance. Perfstat of 1 million pipe context switches between two tasks: Performance counter stats for './pipe-test-1m': [before] [after] ............ ............ 37621.421089 36436.848378 task clock ticks (msecs) 0 0 CPU migrations (events) 2000274 2000189 context switches (events) 194 193 pagefaults (events) 8433799643 8171016416 CPU cycles (events) -3.21% 8370133368 8180999694 instructions (events) -2.31% 4158565 3895941 cache references (events) -6.74% 44312 46264 cache misses (events) 2349.287976 2279.362465 wall-time (msecs) -3.06% The speedup comes straight from the reduction in the instruction count. sched_clock_cpu() got simpler and the whole workload thus executes faster. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c index 24ff26a38ad..5fff00c70de 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -56,11 +57,16 @@ static void __cpuinit early_init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) /* * c->x86_power is 8000_0007 edx. Bit 8 is TSC runs at constant rate - * with P/T states and does not stop in deep C-states + * with P/T states and does not stop in deep C-states. + * + * It is also reliable across cores and sockets. (but not across + * cabinets - we turn it off in that case explicitly.) */ if (c->x86_power & (1 << 8)) { set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC); set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC); + set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_TSC_RELIABLE); + sched_clock_stable = 1; } } -- 2.41.0