x86-64: Remove unnecessary barrier in vread_tsc
authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>
Mon, 23 May 2011 13:31:25 +0000 (09:31 -0400)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 24 May 2011 12:51:28 +0000 (14:51 +0200)
commit057e6a8c660e95c3f4e7162e00e2fee1fc90c50d
tree5c0a81327964affd44137754b64fbaf93ceba6fa
parent8c49d9a74bac5ea3f18480307057241b808fcc0c
x86-64: Remove unnecessary barrier in vread_tsc

RDTSC is completely unordered on modern Intel and AMD CPUs.  The
Intel manual says that lfence;rdtsc causes all previous instructions
to complete before the tsc is read, and the AMD manual says to use
mfence;rdtsc to do the same thing.

From a decent amount of testing [1] this is enough to make rdtsc
be ordered with respect to subsequent loads across a wide variety
of CPUs.

On Sandy Bridge (i7-2600), this improves a loop of
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) by more than 5 ns/iter.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/18/350

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C1c158b9d74338aa5361f96dd473d0e6a58235302.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c