From 4cd4c1b40d40447fb5e7ba80746c6d7ba91d7a53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:24:16 +0100 Subject: timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers Change the process wide cpu timers/clocks so that we: 1) don't mess up the kernel with too many threads, 2) don't have a per-cpu allocation for each process, 3) have no impact when not used. In order to accomplish this we're going to split it into two parts: - clocks; which can take all the time they want since they run from user context -- ie. sys_clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID) - timers; which need constant time sampling but since they're explicity used, the user can pay the overhead. The clock readout will go back to a full sum of the thread group, while the timers will run of a global 'clock' that only runs when needed, so only programs that make use of the facility pay the price. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/itimer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/itimer.c') diff --git a/kernel/itimer.c b/kernel/itimer.c index 6a5fe93dd8bd..58762f7077ec 100644 --- a/kernel/itimer.c +++ b/kernel/itimer.c @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ int do_getitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value) struct task_cputime cputime; cputime_t utime; - thread_group_cputime(tsk, &cputime); + thread_group_cputimer(tsk, &cputime); utime = cputime.utime; if (cputime_le(cval, utime)) { /* about to fire */ cval = jiffies_to_cputime(1); @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ int do_getitimer(int which, struct itimerval *value) struct task_cputime times; cputime_t ptime; - thread_group_cputime(tsk, ×); + thread_group_cputimer(tsk, ×); ptime = cputime_add(times.utime, times.stime); if (cputime_le(cval, ptime)) { /* about to fire */ cval = jiffies_to_cputime(1); -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151