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authorGiuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>2009-07-07 16:25:10 +0200
committerPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2009-11-24 16:23:38 +0900
commita0458b07c17a10ea316e6ae65ab15b78bf5f44ee (patch)
tree16211bec010bd65fe08f818ecb94075bec4d988e /arch/sh/include
parenta8a8a669ea13d792296737505adc43ccacf3a648 (diff)
sh: add sleazy FPU optimization
sh port of the sLeAZY-fpu feature currently implemented for some architectures such us i386. Right now the SH kernel has a 100% lazy fpu behaviour. This is of course great for applications that have very sporadic or no FPU use. However for very frequent FPU users... you take an extra trap every context switch. The patch below adds a simple heuristic to this code: after 5 consecutive context switches of FPU use, the lazy behavior is disabled and the context gets restored every context switch. After 256 switches, this is reset and the 100% lazy behavior is returned. Tests with LMbench showed no regression. I saw a little improvement due to the prefetching (~2%). The tests below also show that, with this sLeazy patch, indeed, the number of FPU exceptions is reduced. To test this. I hacked the lat_ctx LMBench to use the FPU a little more. sLeasy implementation =========================================== switch_to calls | 79326 sleasy calls | 42577 do_fpu_state_restore calls| 59232 restore_fpu calls | 59032 Exceptions: 0x800 (FPU disabled ): 16604 100% Leazy (default implementation) =========================================== switch_to calls | 79690 do_fpu_state_restore calls | 53299 restore_fpu calls | 53101 Exceptions: 0x800 (FPU disabled ): 53273 Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sh/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/sh/include/asm/fpu.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/fpu.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/fpu.h
index 1d3aee04b5c..bfd78e19de1 100644
--- a/arch/sh/include/asm/fpu.h
+++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/fpu.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ static inline void grab_fpu(struct pt_regs *regs)
struct task_struct;
extern void save_fpu(struct task_struct *__tsk, struct pt_regs *regs);
+void fpu_state_restore(struct pt_regs *regs);
#else
#define release_fpu(regs) do { } while (0)
@@ -44,6 +45,8 @@ static inline void unlazy_fpu(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pt_regs *regs)
preempt_disable();
if (test_tsk_thread_flag(tsk, TIF_USEDFPU))
save_fpu(tsk, regs);
+ else
+ tsk->fpu_counter = 0;
preempt_enable();
}