From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E2DFA3745 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2022 01:56:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235277AbiJ1B46 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2022 21:56:58 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:42360 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S234467AbiJ1B45 (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2022 21:56:57 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F04EAEA1F; Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:56:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7287123A; Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.146] (unknown [172.31.20.19]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 86D553F445; Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55256df4-fff1-fa78-97bc-7aaa9efb7255@arm.com> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 07:26:44 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] arm64: support batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation Content-Language: en-US To: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Cc: Yicong Yang , yangyicong@hisilicon.com, corbet@lwn.net, peterz@infradead.org, arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, darren@os.amperecomputing.com, huzhanyuan@oppo.com, lipeifeng@oppo.com, zhangshiming@oppo.com, guojian@oppo.com, realmz6@gmail.com, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, openrisc@lists.librecores.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com, xhao@linux.alibaba.com, prime.zeng@hisilicon.com, Barry Song , Nadav Amit , Mel Gorman , catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org References: <20220921084302.43631-1-yangyicong@huawei.com> <20220921084302.43631-3-yangyicong@huawei.com> <168eac93-a6ee-0b2e-12bb-4222eff24561@arm.com> <8e391962-4e3a-5a56-64b4-78e8637e3b8c@huawei.com> From: Anshuman Khandual In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org On 10/28/22 03:37, Barry Song wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 11:42 PM Anshuman Khandual > wrote: >> >> >> >> On 9/28/22 05:53, Barry Song wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 10:15 PM Yicong Yang wrote: >>>> >>>> On 2022/9/27 14:16, Anshuman Khandual wrote: >>>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>> On 9/21/22 14:13, Yicong Yang wrote: >>>>>> +static inline bool arch_tlbbatch_should_defer(struct mm_struct *mm) >>>>>> +{ >>>>>> + /* for small systems with small number of CPUs, TLB shootdown is cheap */ >>>>>> + if (num_online_cpus() <= 4) >>>>> >>>>> It would be great to have some more inputs from others, whether 4 (which should >>>>> to be codified into a macro e.g ARM64_NR_CPU_DEFERRED_TLB, or something similar) >>>>> is optimal for an wide range of arm64 platforms. >>>>> >>> >>> I have tested it on a 4-cpus and 8-cpus machine. but i have no machine >>> with 5,6,7 >>> cores. >>> I saw improvement on 8-cpus machines and I found 4-cpus machines don't need >>> this patch. >>> >>> so it seems safe to have >>> if (num_online_cpus() < 8) >>> >>>> >>>> Do you prefer this macro to be static or make it configurable through kconfig then >>>> different platforms can make choice based on their own situations? It maybe hard to >>>> test on all the arm64 platforms. >>> >>> Maybe we can have this default enabled on machines with 8 and more cpus and >>> provide a tlbflush_batched = on or off to allow users enable or >>> disable it according >>> to their hardware and products. Similar example: rodata=on or off. >> >> No, sounds bit excessive. Kernel command line options should not be added >> for every possible run time switch options. >> >>> >>> Hi Anshuman, Will, Catalin, Andrew, >>> what do you think about this approach? >>> >>> BTW, haoxin mentioned another important user scenarios for tlb bach on arm64: >>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/393d6318-aa38-01ed-6ad8-f9eac89bf0fc@linux.alibaba.com/ >>> >>> I do believe we need it based on the expensive cost of tlb shootdown in arm64 >>> even by hardware broadcast. >> >> Alright, for now could we enable ARCH_WANT_BATCHED_UNMAP_TLB_FLUSH selectively >> with CONFIG_EXPERT and for num_online_cpus() > 8 ? > > Sounds good to me. It is a good start to bring up tlb batched flush in > ARM64. Later on, we > might want to see it in both memory reclamation and migration. Right, that is the idea, CONFIG_EXPERT gives an way to test this out for some time on various platforms, and later it can be dropped off. Regarding num_online_cpus() = '8' as the threshold which would potentially give benefit of batched TLB should be defined as a macro e.g NR_CPUS_FOR_BATCHED_TLB or internal (non user selectable) config , with a proper in-code comment, explaining the rationale.