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authorAnna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>2016-07-04 09:50:40 +0000
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-07-07 10:35:12 +0200
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treef0cc5ba3ecee3178760cea39941490eea12433ef /arch/sparc/configs
parentffdf047728f8f93df896b58049c7513856027141 (diff)
timers: Implement optimization for same expiry time in mod_timer()
The existing optimization for same expiry time in mod_timer() checks whether the timer expiry time is the same as the new requested expiry time. In the old timer wheel implementation this does not take the slack batching into account, neither does the new implementation evaluate whether the new expiry time will requeue the timer to the same bucket. To optimize that, we can calculate the resulting bucket and check if the new expiry time is different from the current expiry time. This calculation happens outside the base lock held region. If the resulting bucket is the same we can avoid taking the base lock and requeueing the timer. If the timer needs to be requeued then we have to check under the base lock whether the base time has changed between the lockless calculation and taking the lock. If it has changed we need to recalculate under the lock. This optimization takes effect for timers which are enqueued into the less granular wheel levels (1 and above). With a simple test case the functionality has been verified: Before After Match: 5.5% 86.6% Requeue: 94.5% 13.4% Recalc: <0.01% In the non optimized case the timer is requeued in 94.5% of the cases. With the index optimization in place the requeue rate drops to 13.4%. The case where the lockless index calculation has to be redone is less than 0.01%. With a real world test case (networking) we observed the following changes: Before After Match: 97.8% 99.7% Requeue: 2.2% 0.3% Recalc: <0.001% That means two percent fewer lock/requeue/unlock operations done in one of the hot path use cases of timers. Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160704094342.778527749@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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