Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Sep 2016 01:36:22 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v7 00/23] adapt clockevents frequencies to mono clock |
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On Wed, 21 Sep 2016, Nicolai Stange wrote: > Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> writes: > > Have you ever measured the overhead of the extra work which has to be done > > in clockevents_adjust_all_freqs() ? > > Not exactly, I had a look at its invocation frequency which seems to > decay exponentially with uptime, presumably because the NTP error > approaches zero. > > However, I've just gathered a function_graph ftrace on my Intel > i7-4800MQ (Haswell, 8HTs): > > # TIME CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS > # | | | | | | | | > 85.287027 | 0) 0.899 us | clockevents_adjust_all_freqs(); > 85.288026 | 0) 0.759 us | clockevents_adjust_all_freqs(); > 85.289026 | 0) 0.735 us | clockevents_adjust_all_freqs(); > 85.290026 | 0) 0.671 us | clockevents_adjust_all_freqs(); > 149.503656 | 2) 2.477 us | clockevents_adjust_all_freqs();
That's not that bad. Though I'd like to see numbers for ARM (especially the less powerful SoCs) as well.
Thanks,
tglx
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