From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/7] x86/tlb: optimizing flush_tlb_mm
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:27:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336638422.2527.78.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336626013-28413-7-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com>
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 13:00 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> Not every flush_tlb_mm execution moment is really need to evacuate all
> TLB entries, like in munmap, just few 'invlpg' is better for whole
> process performance, since it leaves most of TLB entries for later
> accessing.
>
> This patch is changing flush_tlb_mm(mm) to flush_tlb_mm(mm, start, end)
> in cases.
No I thoroughly hate this patch. Please do something like:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-arch&m=129952026504268&w=2
Afaict it achieves the same, doesn't mangle the tlb flush interfaces and
allows more arch to use generic code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-10 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-10 5:00 [PATCH v4 0/7] tlb flush optimization Alex Shi
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] x86/tlb: unify TLB_FLUSH_ALL definition Alex Shi
2012-05-10 18:46 ` Rob Landley
2012-05-11 18:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU Alex Shi
2012-05-10 14:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11 0:33 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 15:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11 0:38 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range Alex Shi
2012-05-10 7:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-10 8:50 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 21:42 ` Rob Landley
2012-05-10 8:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-10 9:04 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-12 8:01 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-13 11:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-15 1:06 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-15 10:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-15 11:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 11:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-15 12:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 13:58 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] x86/tlb: fall back to flush all when meet a THP large page Alex Shi
2012-05-10 9:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-10 10:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11 0:44 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-11 9:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 16:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-05-12 7:58 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] x86/tlb: add tlb flush all factor for specific CPU Alex Shi
2012-05-10 9:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 0:47 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 9:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 0:48 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 9:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-10 10:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11 0:50 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-11 0:49 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-11 9:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 9:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 12:51 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] x86/tlb: optimizing flush_tlb_mm Alex Shi
2012-05-10 8:27 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_factor into sysfs for user testing/tuning Alex Shi
2012-05-10 8:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11 0:52 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-11 9:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11 12:53 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 15:13 ` Greg KH
2012-05-11 0:59 ` Alex Shi
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