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Commit e888d7fa authored by Pallipadi, Venkatesh's avatar Pallipadi, Venkatesh Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86, delay: tsc based udelay should have rdtsc_barrier



delay_tsc needs rdtsc_barrier to provide proper delay.

Output from a test driver using hpet to cross check delay
provided by udelay().

Before:
[   86.794363] Expected delay 5us actual 4679ns
[   87.154362] Expected delay 5us actual 698ns
[   87.514162] Expected delay 5us actual 4539ns
[   88.653716] Expected delay 5us actual 4539ns
[   94.664106] Expected delay 10us actual 9638ns
[   95.049351] Expected delay 10us actual 10126ns
[   95.416110] Expected delay 10us actual 9568ns
[   95.799216] Expected delay 10us actual 9638ns
[  103.624104] Expected delay 10us actual 9707ns
[  104.020619] Expected delay 10us actual 768ns
[  104.419951] Expected delay 10us actual 9707ns

After:
[   50.983320] Expected delay 5us actual 5587ns
[   51.261807] Expected delay 5us actual 5587ns
[   51.565715] Expected delay 5us actual 5657ns
[   51.861171] Expected delay 5us actual 5587ns
[   52.164704] Expected delay 5us actual 5726ns
[   52.487457] Expected delay 5us actual 5657ns
[   52.789338] Expected delay 5us actual 5726ns
[   57.119680] Expected delay 10us actual 10755ns
[   57.893997] Expected delay 10us actual 10615ns
[   58.261287] Expected delay 10us actual 10755ns
[   58.620505] Expected delay 10us actual 10825ns
[   58.941035] Expected delay 10us actual 10755ns
[   59.320903] Expected delay 10us actual 10615ns
[   61.306311] Expected delay 10us actual 10755ns
[   61.520542] Expected delay 10us actual 10615ns

Signed-off-by: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent 658dbfeb
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