[RFC PATCH v4 00/11] powerpc: switch VDSO to C implementation.

[Segher Boessenkool]

Hi!

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


Segher