tree 16211bec010bd65fe08f818ecb94075bec4d988e
parent a8a8a669ea13d792296737505adc43ccacf3a648
author Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> 1246976710 +0200
committer Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> 1259047418 +0900

sh: add sleazy FPU optimization

sh port of the sLeAZY-fpu feature currently implemented for some architectures
such us i386.

Right now the SH kernel has a 100% lazy fpu behaviour.
This is of course great for applications that have very sporadic or no FPU use.
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.
After 256 switches, this is reset and the 100% lazy behavior is returned.

Tests with LMbench showed no regression.
I saw a little improvement due to the prefetching (~2%).

The tests below also show that, with this sLeazy patch, indeed,
the number of FPU exceptions is reduced.
To test this. I hacked the lat_ctx LMBench to use the FPU a little more.

   sLeasy implementation
   ===========================================
   switch_to calls            |  79326
   sleasy   calls             |  42577
   do_fpu_state_restore  calls|  59232
   restore_fpu   calls        |  59032

   Exceptions:  0x800 (FPU disabled  ): 16604

   100% Leazy (default implementation)
   ===========================================
   switch_to  calls            |  79690
   do_fpu_state_restore calls  |  53299
   restore_fpu  calls          |   53101

   Exceptions: 0x800 (FPU disabled  ):  53273

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>