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    powerpc/vdso64: Add support for CLOCK_{REALTIME/MONOTONIC}_COARSE · 5c929885
    Santosh Sivaraj authored
    Current vDSO64 implementation does not have support for coarse clocks
    (CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE), for which it falls back
    to system call, increasing the response time, vDSO implementation reduces
    the cycle time. Below is a benchmark of the difference in execution times.
    
    (Non-coarse clocks are also included just for completion)
    
    clock-gettime-realtime: syscall: 172 nsec/call
    clock-gettime-realtime:    libc: 28 nsec/call
    clock-gettime-realtime:    vdso: 22 nsec/call
    clock-gettime-monotonic: syscall: 171 nsec/call
    clock-gettime-monotonic:    libc: 30 nsec/call
    clock-gettime-monotonic:    vdso: 25 nsec/call
    clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: syscall: 153 nsec/call
    clock-gettime-realtime-coarse:    libc: 16 nsec/call
    clock-gettime-realtime-coarse:    vdso: 10 nsec/call
    clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: syscall: 167 nsec/call
    clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse:    libc: 17 nsec/call
    clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse:    vdso: 11 nsec/call
    
    CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSantosh Sivaraj <santosh@fossix.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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