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authorDimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>2010-01-22 09:41:40 -0600
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-01-27 11:33:53 +0100
commitaca3bb5910119d4cf6c28568a642582efb4cc14a (patch)
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x86, UV: Fix RTC latency bug by reading replicated cachelines
For SGI UV node controllers (HUB) rev 2.0 or greater, use replicated cachelines to read the RTC timer. This optimization allows faster simulataneous reads from a given socket. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> LKML-Reference: <20100122154140.GB4975@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/uv_mmtimer.c18
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/uv_mmtimer.c b/drivers/char/uv_mmtimer.c
index 867b67be9f0a..c7072ba14f48 100644
--- a/drivers/char/uv_mmtimer.c
+++ b/drivers/char/uv_mmtimer.c
@@ -89,13 +89,17 @@ static long uv_mmtimer_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
switch (cmd) {
case MMTIMER_GETOFFSET: /* offset of the counter */
/*
- * UV RTC register is on its own page
+ * Starting with HUB rev 2.0, the UV RTC register is
+ * replicated across all cachelines of it's own page.
+ * This allows faster simultaneous reads from a given socket.
+ *
+ * The offset returned is in 64 bit units.
*/
- if (PAGE_SIZE <= (1 << 16))
- ret = ((UV_LOCAL_MMR_BASE | UVH_RTC) & (PAGE_SIZE-1))
- / 8;
+ if (uv_get_min_hub_revision_id() == 1)
+ ret = 0;
else
- ret = -ENOSYS;
+ ret = ((uv_blade_processor_id() * L1_CACHE_BYTES) %
+ PAGE_SIZE) / 8;
break;
case MMTIMER_GETRES: /* resolution of the clock in 10^-15 s */
@@ -115,8 +119,8 @@ static long uv_mmtimer_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
ret = hweight64(UVH_RTC_REAL_TIME_CLOCK_MASK);
break;
- case MMTIMER_MMAPAVAIL: /* can we mmap the clock into userspace? */
- ret = (PAGE_SIZE <= (1 << 16)) ? 1 : 0;
+ case MMTIMER_MMAPAVAIL:
+ ret = 1;
break;
case MMTIMER_GETCOUNTER: