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authorAndi Kleen2006-01-11 22:45:24 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds2006-01-11 19:04:58 -0800
commitc818a18146997d1356a4840b0c01f1168c16c8a4 (patch)
tree8d7e049742e87666bf3089fe46e04828b6417fd7 /include
parent7f6c5b046978d68e69bdc73433ead41612a2a1c9 (diff)
[PATCH] x86_64: On Intel CPUs don't do an additional CPU sync before RDTSC
RDTSC serialization using cpuid is not needed for Intel platforms. This increases gettimeofday performance. Cc: vojtech@suse.cz Cc: rohit.seth@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h1
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86_64/timex.h16
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h b/include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h
index aea308c65709..72b39f514798 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/cpufeature.h
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
#define X86_FEATURE_CENTAUR_MCR (3*32+ 3) /* Centaur MCRs (= MTRRs) */
#define X86_FEATURE_K8_C (3*32+ 4) /* C stepping K8 */
#define X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC (3*32+5) /* TSC runs at constant rate */
+#define X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC (3*32+6) /* RDTSC syncs CPU core */
/* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000001 (ecx), word 4 */
#define X86_FEATURE_XMM3 (4*32+ 0) /* Streaming SIMD Extensions-3 */
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/timex.h b/include/asm-x86_64/timex.h
index f971f45d6d78..f18443fcdf04 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/timex.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/timex.h
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
#include <asm/msr.h>
#include <asm/vsyscall.h>
#include <asm/hpet.h>
+#include <asm/system.h>
+#include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE PIT_TICK_RATE /* Underlying HZ */
@@ -23,6 +26,19 @@ static inline cycles_t get_cycles (void)
return ret;
}
+/* Like get_cycles, but make sure the CPU is synchronized. */
+static __always_inline cycles_t get_cycles_sync(void)
+{
+ unsigned long long ret;
+ unsigned eax;
+ /* Don't do an additional sync on CPUs where we know
+ RDTSC is already synchronous. */
+ alternative_io(ASM_NOP2, "cpuid", X86_FEATURE_SYNC_RDTSC,
+ "=a" (eax), "0" (1) : "ebx","ecx","edx","memory");
+ rdtscll(ret);
+ return ret;
+}
+
extern unsigned int cpu_khz;
extern int read_current_timer(unsigned long *timer_value);