On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 09:12:15PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Which would be good enough for mdelay/udelay I think, but we'd need to
> measure the time spend in MWAITT so we wont return early.
>
> Something like this:
Yeah, with a check maybe:
> delay = usec_to_tsc(delay_usec);
if (delay > ((1 << 32) - 1)) {
mdelay(delay_usec);
return;
}
> end = rdtsc() + delay;
> while (1) {
I guess
monitorx( ...);
first.
> MWAITT(delay);
> now = rdtsc();
> if (end <= now)
> break;
> delay = end - now;
> }
>
> Now we'd need to add alternatives or some other mechanism to it to
> make this conditionally for those machines.
alternative_call(mdelay, mdelayx, X86_FEATURE_MWAITT, /* no output */, timeout);
Something like that maybe.
> Not sure if it's worth the trouble.
Could be a use case for MWAITX in the kernel!
:-D
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Boris.
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