This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
to the 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
0018-x86-Add-IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 17eacfe56408a3e25431ee5cbfa7887637217397 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Venkatesh Pallipadi <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:23:27 +0100
Subject: x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
Commit: e82b8e4ea4f3dffe6e7939f90e78da675fcc450e upstream
This patch adds IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING option on x86 and runtime enables it
when TSC is enabled.
This change just enables fine grained irq time accounting, isn't used yet.
Following patches use it for different purposes.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++
arch/x86/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 8 ++++++++
3 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2578,6 +2578,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
disables clocksource verification at runtime.
Used to enable high-resolution timer mode on older
hardware, and in virtualized environment.
+ [x86] noirqtime: Do not use TSC to do irq accounting.
+ Used to run time disable IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING on any
+ platforms where RDTSC is slow and this accounting
+ can add overhead.
turbografx.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY]
TurboGraFX parallel port interface
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -753,6 +753,17 @@ config SCHED_MC
making when dealing with multi-core CPU chips at a cost of slightly
increased overhead in some places. If unsure say N here.
+config IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
+ bool "Fine granularity task level IRQ time accounting"
+ default n
+ ---help---
+ Select this option to enable fine granularity task irq time
+ accounting. This is done by reading a timestamp on each
+ transitions between softirq and hardirq state, so there can be a
+ small performance impact.
+
+ If in doubt, say N here.
+
source "kernel/Kconfig.preempt"
config X86_UP_APIC
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -104,10 +104,14 @@ int __init notsc_setup(char *str)
__setup("notsc", notsc_setup);
+static int no_sched_irq_time;
+
static int __init tsc_setup(char *str)
{
if (!strcmp(str, "reliable"))
tsc_clocksource_reliable = 1;
+ if (!strncmp(str, "noirqtime", 9))
+ no_sched_irq_time = 1;
return 1;
}
@@ -802,6 +806,7 @@ void mark_tsc_unstable(char *reason)
if (!tsc_unstable) {
tsc_unstable = 1;
sched_clock_stable = 0;
+ disable_sched_clock_irqtime();
printk(KERN_INFO "Marking TSC unstable due to %s\n", reason);
/* Change only the rating, when not registered */
if (clocksource_tsc.mult)
@@ -990,6 +995,9 @@ void __init tsc_init(void)
/* now allow native_sched_clock() to use rdtsc */
tsc_disabled = 0;
+ if (!no_sched_irq_time)
+ enable_sched_clock_irqtime();
+
lpj = ((u64)tsc_khz * 1000);
do_div(lpj, HZ);
lpj_fine = lpj;
Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.32 which might be from [email protected]
are
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