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Revision e658a6f14d7c0243205f035979d0ecf6c12a036f authored by Chris Metcalf on 16 November 2016, 16:18:05 UTC, committed by Chris Metcalf on 23 November 2016, 20:28:54 UTC
For large values of "mult" and long uptimes, the intermediate
result of "cycles * mult" can overflow 64 bits.  For example,
the tile platform calls clocksource_cyc2ns with a 1.2 GHz clock;
we have mult = 853, and after 208.5 days, we overflow 64 bits.

Since clocksource_cyc2ns() is intended to be used for relative
cycle counts, not absolute cycle counts, performance is more
importance than accepting a wider range of cycle values.  So,
just use mult_frac() directly in tile's sched_clock().

Commit 4cecf6d401a0 ("sched, x86: Avoid unnecessary overflow
in sched_clock") by Salman Qazi results in essentially the same
generated code for x86 as this change does for tile.  In fact,
a follow-on change by Salman introduced mult_frac() and switched
to using it, so the C code was largely identical at that point too.

Peter Zijlstra then added mul_u64_u32_shr() and switched x86
to use it.  This is, in principle, better; by optimizing the
64x64->64 multiplies to be 32x32->64 multiplies we can potentially
save some time.  However, the compiler piplines the 64x64->64
multiplies pretty well, and the conditional branch in the generic
mul_u64_u32_shr() causes some bubbles in execution, with the
result that it's pretty much a wash.  If tilegx provided its own
implementation of mul_u64_u32_shr() without the conditional branch,
we could potentially save 3 cycles, but that seems like small gain
for a fair amount of additional build scaffolding; no other platform
currently provides a mul_u64_u32_shr() override, and tile doesn't
currently have an <asm/div64.h> header to put the override in.

Additionally, gcc currently has an optimization bug that prevents
it from recognizing the opportunity to use a 32x32->64 multiply,
and so the result would be no better than the existing mult_frac()
until such time as the compiler is fixed.

For now, just using mult_frac() seems like the right answer.

Cc: stable@kernel.org [v3.4+]
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
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History
Tip revision: e658a6f14d7c0243205f035979d0ecf6c12a036f authored by Chris Metcalf on 16 November 2016, 16:18:05 UTC
tile: avoid using clocksource_cyc2ns with absolute cycle count
Tip revision: e658a6f
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compat_mq.c -rw-r--r-- 3.9 KB
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mqueue.c -rw-r--r-- 35.7 KB
msg.c -rw-r--r-- 23.3 KB
msgutil.c -rw-r--r-- 3.6 KB
namespace.c -rw-r--r-- 4.5 KB
sem.c -rw-r--r-- 56.3 KB
shm.c -rw-r--r-- 33.3 KB
syscall.c -rw-r--r-- 2.3 KB
util.c -rw-r--r-- 21.1 KB
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