linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/2] round

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Date:	16 Oct 2006 15:42:43 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] round_jiffies infrastructure

Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> writes:
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__round_jiffies);

This means non GPL modules will disturb your timers again. probably not
a good strategy.

> +
> +unsigned long __round_jiffies_relative(unsigned long T, int CPU)
> +{
> +	int rem;
> +	int original = T;
> +	T=T+jiffies;
> +	rem = T % HZ;
> +	if (rem < HZ/4)
> +		T = T - rem;
> +	else
> +		T = T - rem + HZ;
> +	/* we don't want all cpus firing at once hitting the same lock/memory */
> +	T += CPU * 3;

Consider a dual core Yonah/Merom: it has shared caches and the two cores
can only go to sleep together. With this the wakeups will be always
twice. Not good. I guess you need to add some topology awareness here
and e.g. only spread it for sockets.

BTW we normally put spaces around operators inside expressions.

-Andi
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