1. 20 10月, 2007 5 次提交
  2. 19 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      powerpc: add scaled time accounting · 4603ac18
      Michael Neuling 提交于
      This adds POWERPC specific hooks for scaled time accounting.
      
      POWER6 includes a SPURR register.  The SPURR is based off the PURR register
      but is scaled based on CPU frequency and issue rates.  This gives a more
      accurate account of the instructions used per task.  The PURR and timebase
      will be constant relative to the wall clock, irrespective of the CPU
      frequency.
      
      This implementation reads the SPURR register in account_system_vtime which
      is only call called on context witch and hard and soft irq entry and exit.
      The percentage of user and system time is then estimated using the ratio of
      these accounted by the PURR.  If the SPURR is not present, the PURR read.
      
      An earlier implementation of this patch read the SPURR whenever the PURR
      was read, which included the system call entry and exit path.
      Unfortunately this showed a performance regression on lmbench runs, so was
      re-implemented.
      
      I've included the lmbench results here when run bare metal on POWER6.  1st
      column is the unpatch results.  2nd column is the results using the below
      patch and the 3rd is the % diff of these results from the base.  4th and
      5th columns are the results and % differnce from the base using the older
      patch (SPURR read in syscall entry/exit path).
      
                                    Base        Scaled-Acct     SPURR-in-syscall
                                   Result      Result  % diff    Result % diff
      Simple syscall:              0.3086      0.3086  0.0000    0.3452 11.8600
      Simple read:                 0.4591      0.4671  1.7425    0.5044 9.86713
      Simple write:                0.4364      0.4366  0.0458    0.4731 8.40971
      Simple stat:                 2.0055      2.0295  1.1967    2.0669 3.06158
      Simple fstat:                0.5962      0.5876  -1.442    0.6368 6.80979
      Simple open/close:           3.1283      3.1009  -0.875    3.2088 2.57328
      Select on 10 fd's:           0.8554      0.8457  -1.133    0.8667 1.32101
      Select on 100 fd's:          3.5292      3.6329  2.9383    3.6664 3.88756
      Select on 250 fd's:          7.9097      8.1881  3.5197    8.2242 3.97613
      Select on 500 fd's:          15.2659     15.836  3.7357    15.873 3.97814
      Select on 10 tcp fd's:       0.9576      0.9416  -1.670    0.9752 1.83792
      Select on 100 tcp fd's:      7.248       7.2254  -0.311    7.2685 0.28283
      Select on 250 tcp fd's:      17.7742     17.707  -0.375    17.749 -0.1406
      Select on 500 tcp fd's:      35.4258     35.25   -0.496    35.286 -0.3929
      Signal handler installation: 0.6131      0.6075  -0.913    0.647  5.52927
      Signal handler overhead:     2.0919      2.1078  0.7600    2.1831 4.35967
      Protection fault:            0.7345      0.7478  1.8107    0.8031 9.33968
      Pipe latency:                33.006      16.398  -50.31    33.475 1.42368
      AF_UNIX sock stream latency: 14.5093     30.910  113.03    30.715 111.692
      Process fork+exit:           219.8       222.8   1.3648    229.37 4.35623
      Process fork+execve:         876.14      873.28  -0.32     868.66 -0.8533
      Process fork+/bin/sh -c:     2830        2876.5  1.6431    2958   4.52296
      File /var/tmp/XXX write bw:  1193497     1195536 0.1708    118657 -0.5799
      Pagefaults on /var/tmp/XXX:  3.1272      3.2117  2.7020    3.2521 3.99398
      
      Also, kernel compile times show no difference with this patch applied.
      
      [pbadari@us.ibm.com: Avoid unnecessary PURR reading]
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4603ac18
  3. 17 10月, 2007 17 次提交
  4. 16 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  5. 13 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a struct · 7eff2e7a
      Kay Sievers 提交于
      This changes the uevent buffer functions to use a struct instead of a
      long list of parameters. It does no longer require the caller to do the
      proper buffer termination and size accounting, which is currently wrong
      in some places. It fixes a known bug where parts of the uevent
      environment are overwritten because of wrong index calculations.
      
      Many thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for finding bugs and improving the
      error handling.
      Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      
      7eff2e7a
  6. 12 10月, 2007 5 次提交
  7. 11 10月, 2007 10 次提交