Hi

On 01/17/2020 08:58 AM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

Hi!

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 05:58:24PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:

quoted

On a powerpc8xx, with current powerpc/32 ASM VDSO:

gettimeofday:    vdso: 907 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime:    vdso: 484 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime:    vdso: 899 nsec/call

The first patch adds VDSO generic C support without any changes to common code.
Performance is as follows:

gettimeofday:    vdso: 1211 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime:    vdso: 722 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime:    vdso: 1216 nsec/call

Then a few changes in the common code have allowed performance improvement. At
the end of the series we have:

gettimeofday:    vdso: 974 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime:    vdso: 545 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime:    vdso: 941 nsec/call

The final result is rather close to pure ASM VDSO:
* 7% more on gettimeofday (9 cycles)
* 5% more on clock-gettime-realtime (6 cycles)
* 12% more on clock-getres-realtime (8 cycles)

Nice!  Much better.

It should be tested on more representative hardware, too, but this looks
promising alright :-)

mpc832x (e300c2 core) at 333 MHz:

Before:

gettimeofday:    vdso: 235 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse:    vdso: 1668 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse:    vdso: 1338 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime:    vdso: 135 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime:    vdso: 244 nsec/call
clock-getres-boottime:    vdso: 1232 nsec/call
clock-gettime-boottime:    vdso: 1935 nsec/call
clock-getres-tai:    vdso: 1257 nsec/call
clock-gettime-tai:    vdso: 1898 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-raw:    vdso: 1229 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-raw:    vdso: 1541 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse:    vdso: 1699 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse:    vdso: 1477 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic:    vdso: 135 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic:    vdso: 283 nsec/call

With the series:

gettimeofday:    vdso: 271 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse:    vdso: 159 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse:    vdso: 184 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime:    vdso: 163 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime:    vdso: 281 nsec/call
clock-getres-boottime:    vdso: 169 nsec/call
clock-gettime-boottime:    vdso: 274 nsec/call
clock-getres-tai:    vdso: 163 nsec/call
clock-gettime-tai:    vdso: 277 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-raw:    vdso: 166 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-raw:    vdso: 302 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse:    vdso: 159 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse:    vdso: 184 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic:    vdso: 166 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic:    vdso: 274 nsec/call

Christophe

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