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authorJason Lou <yun.lou@intel.com>2021-04-07 16:16:25 +0800
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UefiCpuPkg: Remove PEI/DXE instances of CpuTimerLib.
REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2832 1. Remove PEI instance(PeiCpuTimerLib). PeiCpuTimerLib is currently designed to save time by getting CPU TSC frequency from Hob. BaseCpuTimerLib is designed to calculate TSC frequency by using CPUID[15h] each time. The time it takes to find CpuCrystalFrequencyHob (about 2000ns) is much longer than it takes to calculate TSC frequency with CPUID[15h] (about 450ns), which means using BaseCpuTimerLib to trigger a delay is more accurate than using PeiCpuTimerLib, recommend to use BaseCpuTimerLib instead of PeiCpuTimerLib. 2. Remove DXE instance(DxeCpuTimerLib). DxeCpuTimerLib is designed to calculate TSC frequency with CPUID[15h] in its constructor function, then save it in a global variable. For this design, once the driver containing this instance is running, this constructor function is called, it will take extra time to calculate TSC frequency. The time it takes to get TSC frequency from global variable is shorter than it takes to calculate TSC frequency with CPUID[15h], but 450ns is a short time, the impact on the platform is very limited. In addition, in order to simplify the code, recommend to use BaseCpuTimerLib instead of DxeCpuTimerLib. I did some experiments on one server platform and collected following data: 1. Average time required to find CpuCrystalFrequencyHob: about 2000 ns. 2. Average time required to find the last Hob: about 2700 ns. 2. Average time required to calculate TSC frequency: about 450 ns. Reference code: // // Calculate average time required to find Hob. // DEBUG((DEBUG_ERROR, "[PeiCpuTimerLib] GetPerformanceCounterFrequency - GetFirstGuidHob (1000 cycles)\n")); Ticks1 = AsmReadTsc(); for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { GuidHob = GetFirstGuidHob (&mCpuCrystalFrequencyHobGuid); } Ticks2 = AsmReadTsc(); if (GuidHob == NULL) { DEBUG((DEBUG_ERROR, "[PeiCpuTimerLib] - CpuCrystalFrequencyHob can not be found!\n")); } else { DEBUG((DEBUG_ERROR, "[PeiCpuTimerLib] - Average time required to find Hob = %d ns\n", \ DivU64x32(DivU64x64Remainder(MultU64x32((Ticks2 - Ticks1), 1000000000), *CpuCrystalCounterFrequency, NULL), 1000))); } // // Calculate average time required to calculate CPU frequency. // DEBUG((DEBUG_ERROR, "[PeiCpuTimerLib] GetPerformanceCounterFrequency - CpuidCoreClockCalculateTscFrequency (1000 cycles)\n")); Ticks1 = AsmReadTsc(); for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { Freq = CpuidCoreClockCalculateTscFrequency (); } Ticks2 = AsmReadTsc(); DEBUG((DEBUG_ERROR, "[PeiCpuTimerLib] - Average time required to calculate TSC frequency = %d ns\n", \ DivU64x32(DivU64x64Remainder(MultU64x32((Ticks2 - Ticks1), 1000000000), *CpuCrystalCounterFrequency, NULL), 1000))); Signed-off-by: Jason Lou <yun.lou@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Ray Ni <ray.ni@intel.com> Cc: Eric Dong <eric.dong@intel.com> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Cc: Rahul Kumar <rahul1.kumar@intel.com>
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UefiCpuPkg/Library/SecPeiDxeTimerLibUefiCpu/SecPeiDxeTimerLibUefiCpu.inf
UefiCpuPkg/Application/Cpuid/Cpuid.inf
UefiCpuPkg/Library/CpuTimerLib/BaseCpuTimerLib.inf
- UefiCpuPkg/Library/CpuTimerLib/DxeCpuTimerLib.inf
- UefiCpuPkg/Library/CpuTimerLib/PeiCpuTimerLib.inf
UefiCpuPkg/Library/CpuCacheInfoLib/PeiCpuCacheInfoLib.inf
UefiCpuPkg/Library/CpuCacheInfoLib/DxeCpuCacheInfoLib.inf