From 8d165db10772f238103c3e8f955c54145e5c07f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 13:37:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Improve decrementer accuracy I have been looking at sources of OS jitter and notice that after a long NO_HZ idle period we wakeup too early: relative time (us) event timer irq exit 999946.405 timer irq entry 4.835 timer irq exit 21.685 timer irq entry 3.540 timer (tick_sched_timer) entry Here we slept for just under a second then took a timer interrupt that did nothing. 21.685 us later we wake up again and do the work. We set a rather low shift value of 16 for the decrementer clockevent, which I think is causing this issue. On this box we have a 207MHz decrementer and see: clockevent: decrementer mult[3501] shift[16] cpu[0] For calculations of large intervals this mult/shift combination could be off by a significant amount. I notice the sparc code has a loop that iterates to find a mult/shift combination that maximises the shift value while keeping mult under 32bit. With the patch below we get: clockevent: decrementer mult[35015c20] shift[32] cpu[15] And we no longer see the spurious wakeups. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c index 48571ac56fb7..bee1443da763 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static void decrementer_set_mode(enum clock_event_mode mode, static struct clock_event_device decrementer_clockevent = { .name = "decrementer", .rating = 200, - .shift = 16, + .shift = 0, /* To be filled in */ .mult = 0, /* To be filled in */ .irq = 0, .set_next_event = decrementer_set_next_event, @@ -843,6 +843,22 @@ static void decrementer_set_mode(enum clock_event_mode mode, decrementer_set_next_event(DECREMENTER_MAX, dev); } +static void __init setup_clockevent_multiplier(unsigned long hz) +{ + u64 mult, shift = 32; + + while (1) { + mult = div_sc(hz, NSEC_PER_SEC, shift); + if (mult && (mult >> 32UL) == 0UL) + break; + + shift--; + } + + decrementer_clockevent.shift = shift; + decrementer_clockevent.mult = mult; +} + static void register_decrementer_clockevent(int cpu) { struct clock_event_device *dec = &per_cpu(decrementers, cpu).event; @@ -860,8 +876,7 @@ static void __init init_decrementer_clockevent(void) { int cpu = smp_processor_id(); - decrementer_clockevent.mult = div_sc(ppc_tb_freq, NSEC_PER_SEC, - decrementer_clockevent.shift); + setup_clockevent_multiplier(ppc_tb_freq); decrementer_clockevent.max_delta_ns = clockevent_delta2ns(DECREMENTER_MAX, &decrementer_clockevent); decrementer_clockevent.min_delta_ns = -- 2.39.5