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| author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> | 2008-09-01 15:52:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> | 2008-09-05 21:35:30 -0700 |
| commit | 6976675d94042fbd446231d1bd8b7de71a980ada (patch) | |
| tree | 2d2acebb8078dd373115ecbdac5423f7d4fa7d72 /kernel | |
| parent | 654c8e0b1c623b156c5b92f28d914ab38c9c2c90 (diff) | |
hrtimer: create a "timer_slack" field in the task struct
We want to be able to control the default "rounding" that is used by
select() and poll() and friends. This is a per process property
(so that we can have a "nice" like program to start certain programs with
a looser or stricter rounding) that can be set/get via a prctl().
For this purpose, a field called "timer_slack_ns" is added to the task
struct. In addition, a field called "default_timer_slack"ns" is added
so that tasks easily can temporarily to a more/less accurate slack and then
back to the default.
The default value of the slack is set to 50 usec; this is significantly less
than 2.6.27's average select() and poll() timing error but still allows
the kernel to group timers somewhat to preserve power behavior. Applications
and admins can override this via the prctl()
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sys.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 7ce2ebe8479..4308d75f0fa 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -987,6 +987,8 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, p->prev_utime = cputime_zero; p->prev_stime = cputime_zero; + p->default_timer_slack_ns = current->timer_slack_ns; + #ifdef CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP p->last_switch_count = 0; p->last_switch_timestamp = 0; diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index 038a7bc0901..1b96401a057 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1727,6 +1727,16 @@ asmlinkage long sys_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3, case PR_SET_TSC: error = SET_TSC_CTL(arg2); break; + case PR_GET_TIMERSLACK: + error = current->timer_slack_ns; + break; + case PR_SET_TIMERSLACK: + if (arg2 <= 0) + current->timer_slack_ns = + current->default_timer_slack_ns; + else + current->timer_slack_ns = arg2; + break; default: error = -EINVAL; break; |