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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman•id.au>
To: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] powerpc: Add VDSO version of time
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 17:21:37 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130405062137.GA5082@concordia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5148C2B3.6010408@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:55:31PM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This patch implement the time syscall as vDSO. I have a glibc patch
> to use it as IFUNC (as latest gettimeofday patch). Below the perf
> numbers:
> 
> Baseline PPC32: 380 nsec
> Baseline PPC64: 352 nsec
> vdso PPC32:      20 nsec
> vdso PPC64:      20 nsec
> 
> I focused on 64 bit kernel, do I need to provide a scheme for 32 bits
> as well?

You did provide a 32-bit implementation. I take it you haven't tested
that though? Can you test it?

What happens if I don't have the glibc patch?

cheers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-05  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-19 19:55 [PATCH] [RFC] powerpc: Add VDSO version of time Adhemerval Zanella
2013-03-20  5:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-21 13:40   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2013-03-26 17:32     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2013-04-04 19:22   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2013-04-05  6:21 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2013-04-05 18:49   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2013-04-08 14:05   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2013-04-18  5:58     ` Michael Ellerman
2013-04-18 22:38 ` Anton Blanchard
2013-04-22 19:29   ` Adhemerval Zanella

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