Re: [PATCH 2/2] riscv: tlb: avoid tlb flushing if fullmm == 1

Alexandre Ghiti
2023-12-30T18:26:44Z

Hi Jisheng,

On 28/12/2023 09:46, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> The mmu_gather code sets fullmm=1 when tearing down the entire address
> space for an mm_struct on exit or execve. So if the underlying platform
> supports ASID, the tlb flushing can be avoided because the ASID
> allocator will never re-allocate a dirty ASID.
>
> Use the performance of Process creation in unixbench on T-HEAD TH1520
> platform is improved by about 4%.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/riscv/include/asm/tlb.h | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/tlb.h
> index 1eb5682b2af6..35f3c214332e 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/tlb.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/tlb.h
> @@ -12,10 +12,19 @@ static void tlb_flush(struct mmu_gather *tlb);
>
> #define tlb_flush tlb_flush
> #include <asm-generic/tlb.h>
> +#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
>
> static inline void tlb_flush(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
> {
> #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
> + /*
> + * If ASID is supported, the ASID allocator will either invalidate the
> + * ASID or mark it as used. So we can avoid TLB invalidation when
> + * pulling down a full mm.
> + */

Given the number of bits are limited for the ASID, at some point we'll
reuse previously allocated ASID so the ASID allocator must make sure to
invalidate the entries when reusing an ASID: can you point where this is
done?

Thanks,

Alex

> + if (static_branch_likely(&use_asid_allocator) && tlb->fullmm)
> + return;
> +
> if (tlb->fullmm || tlb->need_flush_all)
> flush_tlb_mm(tlb->mm);
> else