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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/timer.h | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/timer.c | 132 |
2 files changed, 138 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/timer.h b/include/linux/timer.h index c982304dbafd..eeef6643d4c6 100644 --- a/include/linux/timer.h +++ b/include/linux/timer.h @@ -98,4 +98,10 @@ extern void run_local_timers(void); struct hrtimer; extern int it_real_fn(struct hrtimer *); +unsigned long __round_jiffies(unsigned long j, int cpu); +unsigned long __round_jiffies_relative(unsigned long j, int cpu); +unsigned long round_jiffies(unsigned long j); +unsigned long round_jiffies_relative(unsigned long j); + + #endif diff --git a/kernel/timer.c b/kernel/timer.c index c1c7fbcffec1..b1f40f256eb0 100644 --- a/kernel/timer.c +++ b/kernel/timer.c @@ -80,6 +80,138 @@ tvec_base_t boot_tvec_bases; EXPORT_SYMBOL(boot_tvec_bases); static DEFINE_PER_CPU(tvec_base_t *, tvec_bases) = &boot_tvec_bases; +/** + * __round_jiffies - function to round jiffies to a full second + * @j: the time in (absolute) jiffies that should be rounded + * @cpu: the processor number on which the timeout will happen + * + * __round_jiffies rounds an absolute time in the future (in jiffies) + * up or down to (approximately) full seconds. This is useful for timers + * for which the exact time they fire does not matter too much, as long as + * they fire approximately every X seconds. + * + * By rounding these timers to whole seconds, all such timers will fire + * at the same time, rather than at various times spread out. The goal + * of this is to have the CPU wake up less, which saves power. + * + * The exact rounding is skewed for each processor to avoid all + * processors firing at the exact same time, which could lead + * to lock contention or spurious cache line bouncing. + * + * The return value is the rounded version of the "j" parameter. + */ +unsigned long __round_jiffies(unsigned long j, int cpu) +{ + int rem; + unsigned long original = j; + + /* + * We don't want all cpus firing their timers at once hitting the + * same lock or cachelines, so we skew each extra cpu with an extra + * 3 jiffies. This 3 jiffies came originally from the mm/ code which + * already did this. + * The skew is done by adding 3*cpunr, then round, then subtract this + * extra offset again. + */ + j += cpu * 3; + + rem = j % HZ; + + /* + * If the target jiffie is just after a whole second (which can happen + * due to delays of the timer irq, long irq off times etc etc) then + * we should round down to the whole second, not up. Use 1/4th second + * as cutoff for this rounding as an extreme upper bound for this. + */ + if (rem < HZ/4) /* round down */ + j = j - rem; + else /* round up */ + j = j - rem + HZ; + + /* now that we have rounded, subtract the extra skew again */ + j -= cpu * 3; + + if (j <= jiffies) /* rounding ate our timeout entirely; */ + return original; + return j; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__round_jiffies); + +/** + * __round_jiffies_relative - function to round jiffies to a full second + * @j: the time in (relative) jiffies that should be rounded + * @cpu: the processor number on which the timeout will happen + * + * __round_jiffies_relative rounds a time delta in the future (in jiffies) + * up or down to (approximately) full seconds. This is useful for timers + * for which the exact time they fire does not matter too much, as long as + * they fire approximately every X seconds. + * + * By rounding these timers to whole seconds, all such timers will fire + * at the same time, rather than at various times spread out. The goal + * of this is to have the CPU wake up less, which saves power. + * + * The exact rounding is skewed for each processor to avoid all + * processors firing at the exact same time, which could lead + * to lock contention or spurious cache line bouncing. + * + * The return value is the rounded version of the "j" parameter. + */ +unsigned long __round_jiffies_relative(unsigned long j, int cpu) +{ + /* + * In theory the following code can skip a jiffy in case jiffies + * increments right between the addition and the later subtraction. + * However since the entire point of this function is to use approximate + * timeouts, it's entirely ok to not handle that. + */ + return __round_jiffies(j + jiffies, cpu) - jiffies; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__round_jiffies_relative); + +/** + * round_jiffies - function to round jiffies to a full second + * @j: the time in (absolute) jiffies that should be rounded + * + * round_jiffies rounds an absolute time in the future (in jiffies) + * up or down to (approximately) full seconds. This is useful for timers + * for which the exact time they fire does not matter too much, as long as + * they fire approximately every X seconds. + * + * By rounding these timers to whole seconds, all such timers will fire + * at the same time, rather than at various times spread out. The goal + * of this is to have the CPU wake up less, which saves power. + * + * The return value is the rounded version of the "j" parameter. + */ +unsigned long round_jiffies(unsigned long j) +{ + return __round_jiffies(j, raw_smp_processor_id()); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(round_jiffies); + +/** + * round_jiffies_relative - function to round jiffies to a full second + * @j: the time in (relative) jiffies that should be rounded + * + * round_jiffies_relative rounds a time delta in the future (in jiffies) + * up or down to (approximately) full seconds. This is useful for timers + * for which the exact time they fire does not matter too much, as long as + * they fire approximately every X seconds. + * + * By rounding these timers to whole seconds, all such timers will fire + * at the same time, rather than at various times spread out. The goal + * of this is to have the CPU wake up less, which saves power. + * + * The return value is the rounded version of the "j" parameter. + */ +unsigned long round_jiffies_relative(unsigned long j) +{ + return __round_jiffies_relative(j, raw_smp_processor_id()); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(round_jiffies_relative); + + static inline void set_running_timer(tvec_base_t *base, struct timer_list *timer) { |