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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Luming Yu <luming.yu@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>, Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	arnd@arndb.de, rostedt@goodmis.org, fweisbec@gmail.com,
	jeremy@goop.org, riel@redhat.com, luto@mit.edu, avi@redhat.com,
	len.brown@intel.com, dhowells@redhat.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com,
	borislav.petkov@amd.com, yinghai@kernel.org, ak@linux.intel.com,
	cpw@sgi.com, steiner@sgi.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	penberg@kernel.org, hughd@google.com, rientjes@google.com,
	kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com,
	tj@kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com, axboe@kernel.dk,
	jmorris@namei.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	yongjie.ren@intel.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	jcm@jonmasters.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/7] x86/tlb: optimizing flush_tlb_mm
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 15:06:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337087170.27020.166.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJRGBZy0S_fg3GY4S5CG-2SWv5AG1jMrcMMqCiTg=7xyD1mrzQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 20:58 +0800, Luming Yu wrote:
> 
> 
> Both __native_flush_tlb() and __native_flush_tlb_single(...)
> introduced roughly 1 ns  latency to tsc sampling executed in
> stop_machine_context in two logical CPUs 

But you have to weight that against the cost of re-population, and
that's the difficult bit, since we have no clue how many tlb entries are
in use by the current cr3.

It might be possible for intel to give us this information, I've asked
for something similar for cachelines.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-15 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1337072138-8323-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com>
     [not found] ` <1337072138-8323-7-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com>
2012-05-15  9:15   ` [PATCH v5 6/7] x86/tlb: optimizing flush_tlb_mm Nick Piggin
2012-05-15  9:17     ` Nick Piggin
2012-05-15 12:58       ` Luming Yu
2012-05-15 13:06         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-05-15 13:27           ` Luming Yu
2012-05-15 13:28             ` Alex Shi
2012-05-15 13:28               ` Alex Shi
2012-05-15 13:33           ` Alex Shi
2012-05-15 13:39           ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-15 14:04             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-15 13:08         ` Luming Yu
2012-05-15 13:08           ` Luming Yu
2012-05-15 14:07       ` Alex Shi
2012-05-15  9:18     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15  9:52       ` Nick Piggin
2012-05-15 10:00         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 10:06           ` Nick Piggin
2012-05-15 10:13             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 14:04       ` Alex Shi
2012-05-15 13:24     ` Alex Shi
2012-05-15 14:36       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 14:36         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 14:57         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 15:01           ` Alex Shi
2012-05-16  6:46           ` Alex Shi
2012-05-16  8:00             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-16  8:04               ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-16  8:53                 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-16  8:58                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-16  8:58                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-16 10:58                     ` Alex Shi
2012-05-16 11:04                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-16 12:57                         ` Alex Shi
2012-05-16 13:34               ` Alex Shi
2012-05-16 21:09                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-17  0:43                   ` Alex Shi
2012-05-17  2:07                     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-17  2:07                       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-17  8:04                       ` Alex Shi
2012-05-17  2:14                   ` Paul Mundt
2012-05-16 13:44               ` Alex Shi
2012-05-16 13:44                 ` Alex Shi

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