git: kernel - Refactor the TSC MP synchronization test

Matthew Dillon dillon at crater.dragonflybsd.org
Fri Aug 17 16:56:43 PDT 2018


commit 1eb5a42bfcae00196f0a11051408d9e9dca9968d
Author: Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 17 16:52:45 2018 -0700

    kernel - Refactor the TSC MP synchronization test
    
    * Refactor the TSC MP synchronization test.  Do not use cpusync.
      Using cpusync results in O(N x N) worth of overhead instead of
      O(N) worth of overhead.
    
      Instead, have the per-cpu threads run the test simultaneously using
      each other's data.
    
    * We synchronize to the last TSC element that was saved on each cpu.
      This probably needs a bit of work to ensure determinism, but at
      the moment its good in that it synchronizes all cores off of a
      single cache mastership change, instead of having them all compete
      for cache mastership.
    
    * Probably needs some fine tuning, at the moment I allow a slop of
      10uS which is almost certainly too much.  Note, however, that
      SMP interactions can create ~1uS latencies on particular memory
      accesses.
    
    * Solves serious issues with the old test on 64 cpu threads.
      These issues may also have been related to the ipiq fifo size
      being too small.

Summary of changes:
 sys/platform/pc64/isa/clock.c | 150 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 102 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)

http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/1eb5a42bfcae00196f0a11051408d9e9dca9968d


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