[RFC PATCH] powerpc/32: Switch VDSO to C implementation.

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 26/10/2019 à 17:53, Thomas Gleixner a écrit :
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> Le 22/10/2019 à 11:01, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
>>> Le 21/10/2019 à 23:29, Thomas Gleixner a écrit :
>>>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is a tentative to switch powerpc/32 vdso to generic C
>>>>> implementation.
>>>>> It will likely not work on 64 bits or even build properly at the moment.
>>>>>
>>>>> powerpc is a bit special for VDSO as well as system calls in the
>>>>> way that it requires setting CR SO bit which cannot be done in C.
>>>>> Therefore, entry/exit and fallback needs to be performed in ASM.
>>>>>
>>>>> To allow that, C fallbacks just return -1 and the ASM entry point
>>>>> performs the system call when the C function returns -1.
>>>>>
>>>>> The performance is rather disappoiting. That's most likely all
>>>>> calculation in the C implementation are based on 64 bits math and
>>>>> converted to 32 bits at the very end. I guess C implementation should
>>>>> use 32 bits math like the assembly VDSO does as of today.
>>>>
>>>>> gettimeofday:    vdso: 750 nsec/call
>>>>>
>>>>> gettimeofday:    vdso: 1533 nsec/call
>>>
>>> Small improvement (3%) with the proposed change:
>>>
>>> gettimeofday:    vdso: 1485 nsec/call
>>
>> By inlining do_hres() I get the following:
>>
>> gettimeofday:    vdso: 1072 nsec/call
> 
> What's the effect for clock_gettime()?
> 
> gettimeofday() is suboptimal vs. the PPC ASM variant due to an extra
> division, but clock_gettime() should be 1:1 comparable.
> 

Original PPC asm:
clock-gettime-realtime:    vdso: 928 nsec/call

My original RFC:
clock-gettime-realtime:    vdso: 1570 nsec/call

With your suggested vdso_calc_delta():
clock-gettime-realtime:    vdso: 1512 nsec/call

With your vdso_calc_delta() and inlined do_hres():
clock-gettime-realtime:    vdso: 1302 nsec/call

Christophe