From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5670D1A0AAA for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2015 21:54:28 +1100 (AEDT) From: Mel Gorman To: Andrew Morton Subject: [PATCH 10/10] mm: numa: Avoid unnecessary TLB flushes when setting NUMA hinting entries Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 10:54:11 +0000 Message-Id: <1420455251-13644-11-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1420455251-13644-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1420455251-13644-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel , Hugh Dickins , Linux Kernel , Linux-MM , Ingo Molnar , Aneesh Kumar , Sasha Levin , LinuxPPC-dev , Kirill Shutemov , Mel Gorman List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , If a PTE or PMD is already marked NUMA when scanning to mark entries for NUMA hinting then it is not necessary to update the entry and incur a TLB flush penalty. Avoid the avoidhead where possible. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman --- mm/huge_memory.c | 14 ++++++++------ mm/mprotect.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 8546654..f2bf521 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1524,12 +1524,14 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd, return 0; } - ret = 1; - entry = pmdp_get_and_clear_notify(mm, addr, pmd); - entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot); - ret = HPAGE_PMD_NR; - set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry); - BUG_ON(pmd_write(entry)); + if (!prot_numa || !pmd_protnone(*pmd)) { + ret = 1; + entry = pmdp_get_and_clear_notify(mm, addr, pmd); + entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot); + ret = HPAGE_PMD_NR; + set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry); + BUG_ON(pmd_write(entry)); + } spin_unlock(ptl); } diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c index 33dfafb..109e7aa 100644 --- a/mm/mprotect.c +++ b/mm/mprotect.c @@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd, page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, oldpte); if (!page || PageKsm(page)) continue; + + /* Avoid TLB flush if possible */ + if (pte_protnone(oldpte)) + continue; } ptent = ptep_modify_prot_start(mm, addr, pte); -- 2.1.2