linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 3/3] x86/vmware: Add paravirt sched clock

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Message-ID: <20161028075432.90579-4-amakhalov@vmware.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:54:32 -0700
From:   Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@...are.com>
To:     <corbet@....net>, <akataria@...are.com>, <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        <mingo@...hat.com>, <hpa@...or.com>, <x86@...nel.org>
CC:     <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        <pv-drivers@...are.com>, Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@...are.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/3] x86/vmware: Add paravirt sched clock

The default sched_clock() implementation is native_sched_clock(). It
contains code to handle non constant frequency TSCs, which creates
overhead for systems with constant frequency TSCs.

The vmware hypervisor guarantees a constant frequency TSC, so
native_sched_clock() is not required and slower than a dedicated function
which operates with one time calculated conversion factors.

Calculate the conversion factors at boot time from the tsc frequency and
install an optimized sched_clock() function via paravirt ops.

The paravirtualized clock can be disabled on the kernel command line with
the new 'no-vmw-sched-clock' option.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@...are.com>
Acked-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@...are.com>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |  4 ++++
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c        | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 37babf9..b3b2ec0 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2754,6 +2754,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 	no-kvmapf	[X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized asynchronous page
 			fault handling.
 
+	no-vmw-sched-clock
+			[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
+			clock and use the default one.
+
 	no-steal-acc    [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
 			steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
 			behaviour
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
index 098a524..cdbe38b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/vmware.c
@@ -24,10 +24,15 @@
 #include <linux/dmi.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/export.h>
+#include <linux/clocksource.h>
 #include <asm/div64.h>
 #include <asm/x86_init.h>
 #include <asm/hypervisor.h>
 #include <asm/apic.h>
+#include <asm/timer.h>
+
+#undef pr_fmt
+#define pr_fmt(fmt)	"vmware: " fmt
 
 #define CPUID_VMWARE_INFO_LEAF	0x40000000
 #define VMWARE_HYPERVISOR_MAGIC	0x564D5868
@@ -62,10 +67,47 @@ static unsigned long vmware_get_tsc_khz(void)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
+static struct cyc2ns_data vmware_cyc2ns __ro_after_init;
+static int vmw_sched_clock __initdata = 1;
+
+static __init int setup_vmw_sched_clock(char *s)
+{
+	vmw_sched_clock = 0;
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("no-vmw-sched-clock", setup_vmw_sched_clock);
+
+static unsigned long long vmware_sched_clock(void)
+{
+	unsigned long long ns;
+
+	ns = mul_u64_u32_shr(rdtsc(), vmware_cyc2ns.cyc2ns_mul,
+			     vmware_cyc2ns.cyc2ns_shift);
+	ns -= vmware_cyc2ns.cyc2ns_offset;
+	return ns;
+}
+
+static void __init vmware_sched_clock_setup(void)
+{
+	struct cyc2ns_data *d = &vmware_cyc2ns;
+	unsigned long long tsc_now = rdtsc();
+
+	clocks_calc_mult_shift(&d->cyc2ns_mul, &d->cyc2ns_shift,
+			       vmware_tsc_khz, NSEC_PER_MSEC, 0);
+	d->cyc2ns_offset = mul_u64_u32_shr(tsc_now, d->cyc2ns_mul,
+					   d->cyc2ns_shift);
+
+	pv_time_ops.sched_clock = vmware_sched_clock;
+	pr_info("using sched offset of %llu ns\n", d->cyc2ns_offset);
+}
+
 static void __init vmware_paravirt_ops_setup(void)
 {
 	pv_info.name = "VMware hypervisor";
 	pv_cpu_ops.io_delay = paravirt_nop;
+
+	if (vmware_tsc_khz && vmw_sched_clock)
+		vmware_sched_clock_setup();
 }
 #else
 #define vmware_paravirt_ops_setup() do {} while (0)
-- 
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