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author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2009-02-05 12:24:16 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-05 13:04:33 +0100 |
commit | 4cd4c1b40d40447fb5e7ba80746c6d7ba91d7a53 (patch) | |
tree | b1e580d5284648d6884e951d995509094a92cca4 /kernel/itimer.c | |
parent | 32bd671d6cbeda60dc73be77fa2b9037d9a9bfa0 (diff) | |
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timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/itimer.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/itimer.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/itimer.c b/kernel/itimer.c index 6a5fe93dd8bd..58762f7077ec 100644 --- a/kernel/itimer.c +++ b/kernel/itimer.c @@ -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, ×); + thread_group_cputimer(tsk, ×); ptime = cputime_add(times.utime, times.stime); if (cputime_le(cval, ptime)) { /* about to fire */ cval = jiffies_to_cputime(1); |