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timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers

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Change the process wide cpu timers/clocks so that we:

 1) don't mess up the kernel with too many threads,
 2) don't have a per-cpu allocation for each process,
 3) have no impact when not used.

In order to accomplish this we're going to split it into two parts:

 - clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run
           from user context -- ie. sys_clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID)

 - timers; which need constant time sampling but since they're
           explicity used, the user can pay the overhead.

The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, while the
timers will run of a global 'clock' that only runs when needed, so only
programs that make use of the facility pay the price.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-05 12:24:16 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 32bd671d6c
commit 4cd4c1b40d
5 changed files with 155 additions and 54 deletions
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@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ int do_getitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value)
struct task_cputime cputime;
cputime_t utime;
thread_group_cputime(tsk, &cputime);
thread_group_cputimer(tsk, &cputime);
utime = cputime.utime;
if (cputime_le(cval, utime)) { /* about to fire */
cval = jiffies_to_cputime(1);
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ int do_getitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value)
struct task_cputime times;
cputime_t ptime;
thread_group_cputime(tsk, &times);
thread_group_cputimer(tsk, &times);
ptime = cputime_add(times.utime, times.stime);
if (cputime_le(cval, ptime)) { /* about to fire */
cval = jiffies_to_cputime(1);