From e07e23e1fd3000289fc7ccc6c71879070d3b19e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:52:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] non lazy "sleazy" fpu implementation Right now the kernel on x86-64 has a 100% lazy fpu behavior: after *every* context switch a trap is taken for the first FPU use to restore the FPU context lazily. This is of course great for applications that have very sporadic or no FPU use (since then you avoid doing the expensive save/restore all the time). 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. If the app indeed uses the FPU, the trap is avoided. (the chance of the 6th time slice using FPU after the previous 5 having done so are quite high obviously). After 256 switches, this is reset and lazy behavior is returned (until there are 5 consecutive ones again). The reason for this is to give apps that do longer bursts of FPU use still the lazy behavior back after some time. [akpm@osdl.org: place new task_struct field next to jit_keyring to save space] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/sched.h | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 34ed0d99b1bd..807556c5bcd2 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -865,6 +865,15 @@ struct task_struct { struct key *thread_keyring; /* keyring private to this thread */ unsigned char jit_keyring; /* default keyring to attach requested keys to */ #endif + /* + * fpu_counter contains the number of consecutive context switches + * that the FPU is used. If this is over a threshold, the lazy fpu + * saving becomes unlazy to save the trap. This is an unsigned char + * so that after 256 times the counter wraps and the behavior turns + * lazy again; this to deal with bursty apps that only use FPU for + * a short time + */ + unsigned char fpu_counter; int oomkilladj; /* OOM kill score adjustment (bit shift). */ char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; /* executable name excluding path - access with [gs]et_task_comm (which lock -- cgit v1.2.3