[PATCH V3] perf: x86: Improve accuracy of perf/sched clock

From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Fri Aug 21 2015 - 05:08:11 EST


When TSC is stable perf/sched clock is based on it.
However the conversion from cycles to nanoseconds
is not as accurate as it could be. Because
CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR is 10, the accuracy is +/- 1/2048

The change is to calculate the maximum shift that
results in a multiplier that is still a 32-bit number.
For example all frequencies over 1 GHz will have
a shift of 32, making the accuracy of the conversion
+/- 1/(2^33). That is achieved by using the
'clocks_calc_mult_shift()' function.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
---


Changes in V3:

Use clocks_calc_mult_shift() instead of open-coded
calculation

Changes in V2:

Remove definition of CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR
Amend comments


arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c | 24 +++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
index c8d52cb4cb6e..39ec3d07affd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c
@@ -167,21 +167,20 @@ static void cyc2ns_write_end(int cpu, struct cyc2ns_data *data)
* 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. The larger SC is, the more accurate the conversion, but
+ * cyc2ns_scale needs to be a 32-bit value so that 32-bit multiplication
+ * (64-bit result) can be used.
*
- * We can use khz divisor instead of mhz to keep a better precision, since
- * cyc2ns_scale is limited to 10^6 * 2^10, which fits in 32 bits.
+ * We can use khz divisor instead of mhz to keep a better precision.
* (mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx)
*
* -johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx "math is hard, lets go shopping!"
*/

-#define CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR 10 /* 2^10, carefully chosen */
-
static void cyc2ns_data_init(struct cyc2ns_data *data)
{
data->cyc2ns_mul = 0;
- data->cyc2ns_shift = CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR;
+ data->cyc2ns_shift = 0;
data->cyc2ns_offset = 0;
data->__count = 0;
}
@@ -215,14 +214,14 @@ static inline unsigned long long cycles_2_ns(unsigned long long cyc)

if (likely(data == tail)) {
ns = data->cyc2ns_offset;
- ns += mul_u64_u32_shr(cyc, data->cyc2ns_mul, CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR);
+ ns += mul_u64_u32_shr(cyc, data->cyc2ns_mul, data->cyc2ns_shift);
} else {
data->__count++;

barrier();

ns = data->cyc2ns_offset;
- ns += mul_u64_u32_shr(cyc, data->cyc2ns_mul, CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR);
+ ns += mul_u64_u32_shr(cyc, data->cyc2ns_mul, data->cyc2ns_shift);

barrier();

@@ -256,12 +255,11 @@ static void set_cyc2ns_scale(unsigned long cpu_khz, int cpu)
* time function is continuous; see the comment near struct
* cyc2ns_data.
*/
- data->cyc2ns_mul =
- DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(NSEC_PER_MSEC << CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR,
- cpu_khz);
- data->cyc2ns_shift = CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR;
+ clocks_calc_mult_shift(&data->cyc2ns_mul, &data->cyc2ns_shift, cpu_khz,
+ NSEC_PER_MSEC, 0);
+
data->cyc2ns_offset = ns_now -
- mul_u64_u32_shr(tsc_now, data->cyc2ns_mul, CYC2NS_SCALE_FACTOR);
+ mul_u64_u32_shr(tsc_now, data->cyc2ns_mul, data->cyc2ns_shift);

cyc2ns_write_end(cpu, data);

--
1.9.1

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