linux/kernel/time
Anna-Maria Gleixner f00c0afdfa timers: Implement optimization for same expiry time in mod_timer()
The existing optimization for same expiry time in mod_timer() checks whether
the timer expiry time is the same as the new requested expiry time. In the old
timer wheel implementation this does not take the slack batching into account,
neither does the new implementation evaluate whether the new expiry time will
requeue the timer to the same bucket.

To optimize that, we can calculate the resulting bucket and check if the new
expiry time is different from the current expiry time. This calculation
happens outside the base lock held region. If the resulting bucket is the same
we can avoid taking the base lock and requeueing the timer.

If the timer needs to be requeued then we have to check under the base lock
whether the base time has changed between the lockless calculation and taking
the lock. If it has changed we need to recalculate under the lock.

This optimization takes effect for timers which are enqueued into the less
granular wheel levels (1 and above). With a simple test case the functionality
has been verified:

            Before        After
 Match:       5.5%        86.6%
 Requeue:    94.5%        13.4%
 Recalc:                  <0.01%

In the non optimized case the timer is requeued in 94.5% of the cases. With
the index optimization in place the requeue rate drops to 13.4%. The case
where the lockless index calculation has to be redone is less than 0.01%.

With a real world test case (networking) we observed the following changes:

            Before        After
 Match:      97.8%        99.7%
 Requeue:     2.2%         0.3%
 Recalc:                  <0.001%

That means two percent fewer lock/requeue/unlock operations done in one of
the hot path use cases of timers.

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@sciencehorizons.net>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160704094342.778527749@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-07 10:35:12 +02:00
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alarmtimer.c alarmtimer: Avoid unexpected rtc interrupt when system resume from S3 2015-12-03 22:31:42 -08:00
clockevents.c clockevents: Remove unused set_mode() callback 2015-09-14 11:00:55 +02:00
clocksource.c clocksource: Allow unregistering the watchdog 2016-01-27 12:38:05 +01:00
hrtimer.c timer: Export destroy_hrtimer_on_stack() 2016-05-31 11:44:08 -07:00
itimer.c itimers: Handle relative timers with CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES proper 2016-01-17 11:13:55 +01:00
jiffies.c jiffies: Use CLOCKSOURCE_MASK instead of constant 2016-02-27 08:55:31 +01:00
Kconfig rcu: Drop RCU_USER_QS in favor of NO_HZ_FULL 2015-07-06 13:52:18 -07:00
Makefile time: Remove development rules from Kbuild/Makefile 2015-07-01 09:57:35 +02:00
ntp_internal.h ntp: Fix second_overflow's input parameter type to be 64bits 2015-12-16 16:50:56 -08:00
ntp.c ntp: Fix ADJ_SETOFFSET being used w/ ADJ_NANO 2016-01-22 12:01:42 +01:00
posix-clock.c posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path 2015-12-29 11:33:06 +01:00
posix-cpu-timers.c posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model 2016-03-02 16:44:27 +01:00
posix-timers.c posix-timers: Handle relative timers with CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES proper 2016-01-17 11:13:55 +01:00
sched_clock.c timers, sched/clock: Clean up the code a bit 2015-03-27 08:34:01 +01:00
test_udelay.c time: Rename udelay_test.c to test_udelay.c 2014-11-21 11:59:55 -08:00
tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c kernel: broadcast-hrtimer: Migrate to new 'set-state' interface 2015-08-10 11:41:08 +02:00
tick-broadcast.c tick: Move the export of tick_broadcast_oneshot_control to the proper place 2015-07-14 12:01:04 +02:00
tick-common.c clockevents: Remove unused set_mode() callback 2015-09-14 11:00:55 +02:00
tick-internal.h timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible 2016-07-07 10:35:11 +02:00
tick-oneshot.c clockevents: Provide functions to set and get the state 2015-06-02 14:40:47 +02:00
tick-sched.c timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible 2016-07-07 10:35:11 +02:00
tick-sched.h timers/nohz: Convert tick dependency mask to atomic_t 2016-03-29 11:52:11 +02:00
time.c time: remove timespec_add_safe() 2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
timeconst.bc timeconst: Update path in comment 2015-10-26 10:06:06 +09:00
timeconv.c
timecounter.c timecounter: keep track of accumulated fractional nanoseconds 2014-12-30 18:29:27 -05:00
timekeeping_debug.c timekeeping: Convert timekeeping core to use timespec64s 2014-07-23 10:17:54 -07:00
timekeeping_internal.h clocksource: Make clocksource validation work for all clocksources 2015-12-19 15:59:57 +01:00
timekeeping.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2016-03-17 21:38:27 -07:00
timekeeping.h hrtimer: Make offset update smarter 2015-04-22 17:06:49 +02:00
timer_list.c hrtimer: Handle remaining time proper for TIME_LOW_RES 2016-01-17 11:13:55 +01:00
timer_stats.c timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling 2015-06-19 15:18:27 +02:00
timer.c timers: Implement optimization for same expiry time in mod_timer() 2016-07-07 10:35:12 +02:00