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[PATCH 1/2] ARM64:VDSO: Improve gettimeofday, don't use udiv

From Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 1/2] ARM64:VDSO: Improve gettimeofday, don't use udiv
Date 2016-03-13 21:00 +0100
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On many cores, udiv with a large value is slow, expand instead
the division out to be what GCC would have generated for the
divide by 1000.

On ThunderX, the speeds up gettimeofday by 5%.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S |   20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S
index efa79e8..e5caef9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S
@@ -64,10 +64,22 @@ ENTRY(__kernel_gettimeofday)
 	bl	__do_get_tspec
 	seqcnt_check w9, 1b
 
-	/* Convert ns to us. */
-	mov	x13, #1000
-	lsl	x13, x13, x12
-	udiv	x11, x11, x13
+	/* Undo the shift. */
+        lsr     x11, x11, x12
+
+	/* Convert ns to us (division by 1000 by using multiply high).
+	 * This is how GCC converts the division by 1000 into.
+	 * This is faster than divide on most cores.
+	 */
+        mov     x13, 63439
+        movk    x13, 0xe353, lsl 16
+        lsr     x11, x11, 3
+        movk    x13, 0x9ba5, lsl 32
+        movk    x13, 0x20c4, lsl 48
+	/* x13 = 0x20c49ba5e353f7cf */
+        umulh   x11, x11, x13
+        lsr     x11, x11, 4
+
 	stp	x10, x11, [x0, #TVAL_TV_SEC]
 2:
 	/* If tz is NULL, return 0. */
-- 
1.7.2.5

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[PATCH 0/2] *** SUBJECT HERE *** Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com> - 2016-03-13 21:00 +0100
  [PATCH 1/2] ARM64:VDSO: Improve gettimeofday, don't use udiv Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com> - 2016-03-13 21:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM64:VDSO: Improve gettimeofday, don't use udiv Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2016-03-14 08:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM64:VDSO: Improve gettimeofday, don't use udiv Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2016-03-14 09:00 +0100

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