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Date:   Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:24:45 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 00/33] kernel: Introduce Time Namespace
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On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Dmitry Safonov wrote:
> We wrote two small benchmarks. The first one gettime_perf.c calls
> clock_gettime() in a loop for 3 seconds. It shows us performance with
> a hot CPU cache (more clock_gettime() cycles - the better):
> 
>         | before    | CONFIG_TIME_NS=n | host      | inside timens
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>         | 153242367 | 153567617        | 150933203 | 139310914
>         | 153324800 | 153115132        | 150919828 | 139299761
>         | 153125401 | 153686868        | 150930471 | 139273917
>         | 153399355 | 153694866        | 151083410 | 139286081
>         | 153489417 | 153739716        | 150997262 | 139146403
>         | 153494270 | 153724332        | 150035651 | 138835612
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> avg     | 153345935 | 153588088        | 150816637 | 139192114
> diff %  | 100       | 100.1            | 98.3      | 90.7


That host 98.3% number is weird and does not match the tests I did with the
fallback code I provided you. On my limited testing that fallback hidden in
the slowpath did not show any difference to the TIME_NS=n case when not
inside a time namespace.

Thanks,

	tglx