Re: [RFC PATCH 5/6] x86/mm/tlb: Flush remote and local TLBs concurrently

Juergen Gross
2019-05-25T08:54:56Z

On 25/05/2019 10:22, Nadav Amit wrote:
> To improve TLB shootdown performance, flush the remote and local TLBs
> concurrently. Introduce flush_tlb_multi() that does so. The current
> flush_tlb_others() interface is kept, since paravirtual interfaces need
> to be adapted first before it can be removed. This is left for future
> work. In such PV environments, TLB flushes are not performed, at this
> time, concurrently.
>
> Add a static key to tell whether this new interface is supported.
>
> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
> Cc: linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/hyperv/mmu.c | 2 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h | 8 +++
> arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 6 ++
> arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 6 ++
> arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 1 +
> arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 3 +
> arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
> arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c | 2 +
> 8 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/hyperv/mmu.c b/arch/x86/hyperv/mmu.c
> index e65d7fe6489f..ca28b400c87c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/hyperv/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/hyperv/mmu.c
> @@ -233,4 +233,6 @@ void hyperv_setup_mmu_ops(void)
> pr_info("Using hypercall for remote TLB flush\n");
> pv_ops.mmu.flush_tlb_others = hyperv_flush_tlb_others;
> pv_ops.mmu.tlb_remove_table = tlb_remove_table;
> +
> + static_key_disable(&flush_tlb_multi_enabled.key);
> }
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
> index c25c38a05c1c..192be7254457 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h
> @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ static inline void slow_down_io(void)
> #endif
> }
>
> +DECLARE_STATIC_KEY_TRUE(flush_tlb_multi_enabled);
> +
> static inline void __flush_tlb(void)
> {
> PVOP_VCALL0(mmu.flush_tlb_user);
> @@ -62,6 +64,12 @@ static inline void __flush_tlb_one_user(unsigned long addr)
> PVOP_VCALL1(mmu.flush_tlb_one_user, addr);
> }
>
> +static inline void flush_tlb_multi(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
> + const struct flush_tlb_info *info)
> +{
> + PVOP_VCALL2(mmu.flush_tlb_multi, cpumask, info);
> +}
> +
> static inline void flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
> const struct flush_tlb_info *info)
> {
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
> index 946f8f1f1efc..3a156e63c57d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h
> @@ -211,6 +211,12 @@ struct pv_mmu_ops {
> void (*flush_tlb_user)(void);
> void (*flush_tlb_kernel)(void);
> void (*flush_tlb_one_user)(unsigned long addr);
> + /*
> + * flush_tlb_multi() is the preferred interface. When it is used,
> + * flush_tlb_others() should return false.

This comment does not make sense. flush_tlb_others() return type is
void.

Juergen