Re: [PATCH v5 10/12] x86,tlb: do targeted broadcast flushing from tlbbatch code

Rik van Riel
2025-01-20T14:06:31Z

On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 11:56 +0200, Nadav Amit wrote:
>
> > @@ -1670,12 +1668,62 @@ void arch_tlbbatch_flush(struct
> > arch_tlbflush_unmap_batch *batch)
> >    local_irq_enable();
> >    }
> >
> > + /*
> > + * If we issued (asynchronous) INVLPGB flushes, wait for
> > them here.
> > + * The cpumask above contains only CPUs that were running
> > tasks
> > + * not using broadcast TLB flushing.
> > + */
> > + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_INVLPGB) && batch-
> > >used_invlpgb) {
> > + tlbsync();
> > + migrate_enable();
>
> Maybe someone mentioned it before, but I would emphasize that I do
> not
> think that preventing migration for potentially long time is that
> great.
>
> One alternative solution would be to set a bit on cpu_tlbstate, that
> when set, you'd issue a tlbsync on context switch.
>
> (I can think about other solutions, but I think the one I just
> mentioned
> is the cleanest one).

It is clean, but I'm not convinced it is good enough.

We need to guarantee that the INVLPGBs have finished
before we free the pages.

Running a TLBSYNC at the next context switch could
mean that TLBSYNC won't run until after the pages
have been freed.

In practice it is probably good enough, since it
would be simpler for TLBSYNC to return once all
pending (older) INVLPGBs have finished, but it's
not architecturally guaranteed.

We could send an IPI to remote CPUs in order for
them to call TLBSYNC, but is that really better?

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