runtime: use vDSO on linux/386 to improve time.Now performance
This change adds support for accelerating time.Now by using
the __vdso_clock_gettime fast-path via the vDSO on linux/386
if it is available.
When the vDSO path to the clocks is available, it is typically
5x-10x faster than the syscall path (see benchmark extract
below). Two such calls are made for each time.Now() call
on most platforms as of go 1.9.
- Add vdso_linux_386.go, containing the ELF32 definitions
for use by vdso_linux.go, the maximum array size, and
the symbols to be located in the vDSO.
- Modify runtime.walltime and runtime.nanotime to check for
and use the vDSO fast-path if available, or fall back to
the existing syscall path.
- Reduce the stack reservations for runtime.walltime and
runtime.monotime from 32 to 16 bytes. It appears the syscall
path actually only needed 8 bytes, but 16 is now needed to
cover the syscall and vDSO paths.
- Remove clearing DX from the syscall paths as clock_gettime
only takes 2 args (BX, CX in syscall calling convention),
so there should be no need to clear DX.
The included BenchmarkTimeNow was run with -cpu=1 -count=20
on an "Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J1900 @ 1.99GHz", comparing
released go 1.9.1 vs this change. This shows a gain in
performance on linux/386 (6.89x), and that no regression
occurred on linux/amd64 due to this change.
Kernel: linux/i686, GOOS=linux GOARCH=386
name old time/op new time/op delta
TimeNow 978ns ± 0% 142ns ± 0% -85.48% (p=0.000 n=16+20)
Kernel: linux/x86_64, GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64
name old time/op new time/op delta
TimeNow 125ns ± 0% 125ns ± 0% ~ (all equal)
Gains are more dramatic in virtualized environments,
presumably due to the overhead of virtualizing the syscall.
Fixes #22190
Change-Id: I2f83ce60cb1b8b310c9ced0706bb463c1b3aedf8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/69390
Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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