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Christoph Lameter authored
POSIX clocks are to be implemented in the following way according to V3 of the Single Unix Specification: 1. CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID Implementations shall also support the special clockid_t value CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, which represents the CPU-time clock of the calling process when invoking one of the clock_*() or timer_*() functions. For these clock IDs, the values returned by clock_gettime() and specified by clock_settime() represent the amount of execution time of the process associated with the clock. 2. CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID Implementations shall also support the special clockid_t value CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, which represents the CPU-time clock of the calling thread when invoking one of the clock_*() or timer_*() functions. For these clock IDs, the values returned by clock_gettime() and specified by clock_settime() shall represent the amount of execution time of the thread associated with the clock. These times mentioned are CPU processing times and not the time that has passed since the startup of a process. Glibc currently provides its own implementation of these two clocks which is designed to return the time that passed since the startup of a process or a thread. Moreover Glibc's clocks are bound to CPU timers which is problematic when the frequency of the clock changes or the process is moved to a different processor whose cpu timer may not be fully synchronized to the cpu timer of the current CPU. This patchset results in a both clocks working reliably. The patch also implements the access to other the thread and process clocks of linux processes by using negative clockid's: 1. For CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID: -pid 2. For CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID: -(pid + PID_MAX_LIMIT) This allows clock_getcpuclockid(pid) to return -pid and pthread_getcpuiclock(pid) to return -(pid + PID_MAX_LIMIT) to allow access to the corresponding clocks. Todo: - The timer API to generate events by a non tick based timer is not usable in its current state. The posix timer API seems to be only useful at this point to define clock_get/set. Need to revise this. - Implement timed interrupts in mmtimer after API is revised. The mmtimer patch is unchanged from V6 and stays as is in 2.6.9-rc3-mm2. But I expect to update the driver as soon as the interface to setup hardware timer interrupts is usable. Single Thread Testing CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID= 0.494140878 resolution= 0.000976563 CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID= 0.494140878 resolution= 0.000976563 Multi Thread Testing Starting Thread: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Joining Thread: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Cycles= 0 Thread= 0.000000000ns Process= 0.495117441ns 1 Cycles=1000000 Thread= 0.140625072ns Process= 2.523438792ns 2 Cycles=2000000 Thread= 0.966797370ns Process= 8.512699671ns 3 Cycles=3000000 Thread= 0.806641038ns Process= 7.561527309ns 4 Cycles=4000000 Thread= 1.865235330ns Process= 12.891608163ns 5 Cycles=5000000 Thread= 1.604493009ns Process= 11.528326215ns 6 Cycles=6000000 Thread= 2.086915131ns Process= 13.500983475ns 7 Cycles=7000000 Thread= 2.245118337ns Process= 13.947272766ns 8 Cycles=8000000 Thread= 1.604493009ns Process= 12.252935961ns 9 Cycles=9000000 Thread= 2.160157356ns Process= 13.977546219ns Clock status at the end of the timer tests: Gettimeofday() = 1097084999.489938000 CLOCK_REALTIME= 1097084999.490116229 resolution= 0.000000040 CLOCK_MONOTONIC= 177.071675109 resolution= 0.000000040 CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID= 13.978522782 resolution= 0.000976563 CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID= 0.497070567 resolution= 0.000976563 CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE= 229.967982280 resolution= 0.000000040 PROCESS clock of 1 (init)= 4.833986850 resolution= 0.000976563 THREAD clock of 1 (init)= 0.009765630 resolution= 0.000976563 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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