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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>2005-10-30 14:59:25 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-30 17:37:11 -0800
commitdacb16b1a034fa7a0b868ee30758119fbfd90bc1 (patch)
treedaaa631c9c6fa2ad011647fb3acd219784faf2e2 /arch/i386/kernel/timers
parentbfd51626cbf61cb23f787d8ff972ef0d5ddacc0b (diff)
[PATCH] i386 and x86_64 TSC set_cyc2ns_scale imprecision
I just found out that some precision is unnecessarily lost in the arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:set_cyc2ns_scale function. It uses a cpu_mhz parameter when it could use a cpu_khz. In the specific case of an Intel P4 running at 3001.171 Mhz, the truncation to 3001 Mhz leads to an imprecision of 19 microseconds per second : this is very sad for a timer with nearly nanosecond accuracy. Fix the x86_64 architecture too. Cc: george anzinger <george@mvista.com> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/timers')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c17
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c21
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
index d973a8b681f..be242723c33 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_hpet.c
@@ -30,23 +30,28 @@ static seqlock_t monotonic_lock = SEQLOCK_UNLOCKED;
* basic equation:
* ns = cycles / (freq / ns_per_sec)
* ns = cycles * (ns_per_sec / freq)
- * ns = cycles * (10^9 / (cpu_mhz * 10^6))
- * ns = cycles * (10^3 / cpu_mhz)
+ * ns = cycles * (10^9 / (cpu_khz * 10^3))
+ * ns = cycles * (10^6 / cpu_khz)
*
* Then we use scaling math (suggested by george@mvista.com) to get:
- * ns = cycles * (10^3 * SC / cpu_mhz) / SC
+ * ns = cycles * (10^6 * SC / cpu_khz) / SC
* ns = cycles * cyc2ns_scale / SC
*
* And since SC is a constant power of two, we can convert the div
* into a shift.
+ *
+ * We can use khz divisor instead of mhz to keep a better percision, since
+ * cyc2ns_scale is limited to 10^6 * 2^10, which fits in 32 bits.
+ * (mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca)
+ *
* -johnstul@us.ibm.com "math is hard, lets go shopping!"
*/
static unsigned long cyc2ns_scale;
#define CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR 10 /* 2^10, carefully chosen */
-static inline void set_cyc2ns_scale(unsigned long cpu_mhz)
+static inline void set_cyc2ns_scale(unsigned long cpu_khz)
{
- cyc2ns_scale = (1000 << CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR)/cpu_mhz;
+ cyc2ns_scale = (1000000 << CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR)/cpu_khz;
}
static inline unsigned long long cycles_2_ns(unsigned long long cyc)
@@ -163,7 +168,7 @@ static int __init init_hpet(char* override)
printk("Detected %u.%03u MHz processor.\n",
cpu_khz / 1000, cpu_khz % 1000);
}
- set_cyc2ns_scale(cpu_khz/1000);
+ set_cyc2ns_scale(cpu_khz);
}
/* set this only when cpu_has_tsc */
timer_hpet.read_timer = read_timer_tsc;
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c
index 6dd470cc9f7..d395e3b4248 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c
@@ -49,23 +49,28 @@ static seqlock_t monotonic_lock = SEQLOCK_UNLOCKED;
* basic equation:
* ns = cycles / (freq / ns_per_sec)
* ns = cycles * (ns_per_sec / freq)
- * ns = cycles * (10^9 / (cpu_mhz * 10^6))
- * ns = cycles * (10^3 / cpu_mhz)
+ * ns = cycles * (10^9 / (cpu_khz * 10^3))
+ * ns = cycles * (10^6 / cpu_khz)
*
* Then we use scaling math (suggested by george@mvista.com) to get:
- * ns = cycles * (10^3 * SC / cpu_mhz) / SC
+ * ns = cycles * (10^6 * SC / cpu_khz) / SC
* ns = cycles * cyc2ns_scale / SC
*
* And since SC is a constant power of two, we can convert the div
- * into a shift.
+ * into a shift.
+ *
+ * We can use khz divisor instead of mhz to keep a better percision, since
+ * cyc2ns_scale is limited to 10^6 * 2^10, which fits in 32 bits.
+ * (mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca)
+ *
* -johnstul@us.ibm.com "math is hard, lets go shopping!"
*/
static unsigned long cyc2ns_scale;
#define CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR 10 /* 2^10, carefully chosen */
-static inline void set_cyc2ns_scale(unsigned long cpu_mhz)
+static inline void set_cyc2ns_scale(unsigned long cpu_khz)
{
- cyc2ns_scale = (1000 << CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR)/cpu_mhz;
+ cyc2ns_scale = (1000000 << CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR)/cpu_khz;
}
static inline unsigned long long cycles_2_ns(unsigned long long cyc)
@@ -286,7 +291,7 @@ time_cpufreq_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long val,
if (use_tsc) {
if (!(freq->flags & CPUFREQ_CONST_LOOPS)) {
fast_gettimeoffset_quotient = cpufreq_scale(fast_gettimeoffset_ref, freq->new, ref_freq);
- set_cyc2ns_scale(cpu_khz/1000);
+ set_cyc2ns_scale(cpu_khz);
}
}
#endif
@@ -536,7 +541,7 @@ static int __init init_tsc(char* override)
printk("Detected %u.%03u MHz processor.\n",
cpu_khz / 1000, cpu_khz % 1000);
}
- set_cyc2ns_scale(cpu_khz/1000);
+ set_cyc2ns_scale(cpu_khz);
return 0;
}
}