From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/7] x86/tlb: optimizing flush_tlb_mm
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 12:00:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337076027.27694.13.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPa8GCBaQhksvVT9DAgwzPPkCMrhcYnSdCtUHEe=cQS8_Cm7DQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 19:52 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> It could be warranted to change tlb_flush_mmu to a range API to
> avoid doing the per-entry tracking which those architectures do?
The per-entry could result in a much smaller range, there's no point in
flushing tlbs for unpopulated pages.
Anyway, I don't think even think we'd need to change the API for that,
you could track the entire range through tlb_start_vma() if you wanted
(although nobody does that IIRC).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-15 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-15 8:55 [PATCH v5 0/7] tlb flush optimization for x86 Alex Shi
2012-05-15 8:55 ` [PATCH v5 1/7] x86/tlb: unify TLB_FLUSH_ALL definition Alex Shi
2012-05-15 8:55 ` [PATCH v5 2/7] x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU Alex Shi
2012-05-15 8:55 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range Alex Shi
2012-05-15 8:55 ` [PATCH v5 4/7] x86/tlb: fall back to flush all when meet a THP large page Alex Shi
2012-05-15 8:55 ` [PATCH v5 5/7] x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift for specific CPU Alex Shi
2012-05-16 6:49 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-16 17:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-17 1:46 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-15 8:55 ` [PATCH v5 6/7] x86/tlb: optimizing flush_tlb_mm Alex Shi
2012-05-15 9:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 9:15 ` Nick Piggin
2012-05-15 9:17 ` Nick Piggin
2012-05-15 12:58 ` Luming Yu
2012-05-15 13:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 13:27 ` Luming Yu
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 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 [this message]
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 14:57 ` 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 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 8:04 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-17 2:14 ` Paul Mundt
2012-05-16 13:44 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-15 8:55 ` [PATCH v5 7/7] x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift knob into debugfs Alex Shi
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