| From: |
| Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> |
| To: |
| Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH] (3/4) 2.5.59 fast reader/writer lock for gettimeofday |
| Date: |
| 28 Jan 2003 15:42:41 -0800 |
| Cc: |
| Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> |
This is the ia64 portion of lockless gettimeofday. It defines frlock
and changes locking of xtime_lock from rwlock to frlock.
diff -urN -X dontdiff linux-2.5.59/arch/ia64/kernel/time.c linux-2.5-frlock/arch/ia64/kernel/time.c
--- linux-2.5.59/arch/ia64/kernel/time.c 2003-01-17 09:42:15.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.5-frlock/arch/ia64/kernel/time.c 2003-01-24 14:54:11.000000000 -0800
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
#include <asm/sal.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
-extern rwlock_t xtime_lock;
+extern frlock_t xtime_lock;
extern unsigned long wall_jiffies;
extern unsigned long last_time_offset;
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
void
do_settimeofday (struct timeval *tv)
{
- write_lock_irq(&xtime_lock);
+ fr_write_lock_irq(&xtime_lock);
{
/*
* This is revolting. We need to set "xtime" correctly. However, the value
@@ -112,21 +112,21 @@
time_maxerror = NTP_PHASE_LIMIT;
time_esterror = NTP_PHASE_LIMIT;
}
- write_unlock_irq(&xtime_lock);
+ fr_write_unlock_irq(&xtime_lock);
}
void
do_gettimeofday (struct timeval *tv)
{
- unsigned long flags, usec, sec, old;
+ unsigned long seq, usec, sec, old;
- read_lock_irqsave(&xtime_lock, flags);
- {
+ do {
+ seq = fr_read_begin(&xtime_lock);
usec = gettimeoffset();
/*
- * Ensure time never goes backwards, even when ITC on different CPUs are
- * not perfectly synchronized.
+ * Ensure time never goes backwards, even when ITC on
+ * different CPUs are not perfectly synchronized.
*/
do {
old = last_time_offset;
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@
sec = xtime.tv_sec;
usec += xtime.tv_nsec / 1000;
- }
- read_unlock_irqrestore(&xtime_lock, flags);
+ } while (seq != fr_read_end(&xtime_lock));
+
while (usec >= 1000000) {
usec -= 1000000;
@@ -182,10 +182,10 @@
* another CPU. We need to avoid to SMP race by acquiring the
* xtime_lock.
*/
- write_lock(&xtime_lock);
+ fr_write_lock(&xtime_lock);
do_timer(regs);
local_cpu_data->itm_next = new_itm;
- write_unlock(&xtime_lock);
+ fr_write_unlock(&xtime_lock);
} else
local_cpu_data->itm_next = new_itm;