From: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:23:23 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: timers, sched/clock: Optimize cache line usage
X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v4.1/fixes-rc1~197^2~80
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cf7c9c170787d6870af54684822f58acc00a966c;p=pandora-kernel.git

timers, sched/clock: Optimize cache line usage

Currently sched_clock(), a very hot code path, is not optimized
to minimise its cache profile. In particular:

  1. cd is not ____cacheline_aligned,

  2. struct clock_data does not distinguish between hotpath and
     coldpath data, reducing locality of reference in the hotpath,

  3. Some hotpath data is missing from struct clock_data and is marked
     __read_mostly (which more or less guarantees it will not share a
     cache line with cd).

This patch corrects these problems by extracting all hotpath
data into a separate structure and using ____cacheline_aligned
to ensure the hotpath uses a single (64 byte) cache line.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427397806-20889-3-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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