linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] sched,time: remove pointless divides from __acct_update

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2016 17:22:59 -0500
From:	riel@...hat.com
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
	luto@...capital.net, fweisbec@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] sched,time: remove pointless divides from __acct_update_integrals

From: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>

When running a microbenchmark calling an invalid syscall number
in a loop, on a nohz_full CPU, we spend a full 9% of our CPU
time in __acct_update_integrals.

This function converts cputime_t to jiffies, to a timeval, only to
convert the timeval back to microseconds before discarding it.

This patch leaves __acct_update_integrals functionally equivalent,
but speeds things up by about 11%, with 10 million calls to an
invalid syscall number dropping from 3.7 to 3.3 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/tsacct.c | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/tsacct.c b/kernel/tsacct.c
index 975cb49e32bf..afb5cf8ecc5f 100644
--- a/kernel/tsacct.c
+++ b/kernel/tsacct.c
@@ -125,22 +125,22 @@ static void __acct_update_integrals(struct task_struct *tsk,
 {
 	if (likely(tsk->mm)) {
 		cputime_t time, dtime;
-		struct timeval value;
 		unsigned long flags;
-		u64 delta;
+		u64 delta, usecs;
 
 		local_irq_save(flags);
 		time = stime + utime;
 		dtime = time - tsk->acct_timexpd;
-		jiffies_to_timeval(cputime_to_jiffies(dtime), &value);
-		delta = value.tv_sec;
-		delta = delta * USEC_PER_SEC + value.tv_usec;
+		delta = cputime_to_jiffies(dtime);
 
 		if (delta == 0)
 			goto out;
+
+		usecs = jiffies_to_usecs(delta);
+
 		tsk->acct_timexpd = time;
-		tsk->acct_rss_mem1 += delta * get_mm_rss(tsk->mm);
-		tsk->acct_vm_mem1 += delta * tsk->mm->total_vm;
+		tsk->acct_rss_mem1 += usecs * get_mm_rss(tsk->mm);
+		tsk->acct_vm_mem1 += usecs * tsk->mm->total_vm;
 	out:
 		local_irq_restore(flags);
 	}
-- 
2.5.0