From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 8/8] x86/tlb: just do tlb flush on one of siblings of SMT
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 08:04:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBE4E05.7070603@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBDF200.7060608@intel.com>
On 05/24/2012 01:32 AM, Alex Shi wrote:
>
> Sure. but just want to know how many commercial x86 CPU uses >2 SMTs?
> Write a short, quick function to do random selection in SMT is quite
> complicate considering cpumask maybe just contain random number SMT
> siblings in a core.
>
Wrong question. This is a forward compatibility issue. You have to
take into account potential future CPUs as well.
And no, it isn't hard.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-24 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-23 14:15 [PATCH v7 0/8] x86 tlb optimisations Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 1/8] x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 2/8] x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:51 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-24 6:41 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 8:12 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-24 8:55 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 9:44 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-24 14:36 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-25 2:43 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 3/8] x86/tlb: fall back to flush all when meet a THP large page Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 4/8] x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift for specific CPU Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 5/8] x86/tlb: enable tlb flush range support for generic mmu and x86 Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 6/8] x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift knob into debugfs Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 7/8] x86/tlb: replace INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR by CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR Alex Shi
2012-05-23 14:15 ` [PATCH v7 8/8] x86/tlb: just do tlb flush on one of siblings of SMT Alex Shi
2012-05-23 15:05 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-23 17:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-23 17:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-24 1:46 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-05-24 5:12 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 6:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-24 7:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-24 13:19 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2012-05-24 13:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-24 13:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-05-24 13:54 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 14:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-05-24 14:32 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 15:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-25 0:24 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 16:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-05-25 0:28 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-25 0:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2012-05-24 8:32 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 8:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-24 8:48 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 11:35 ` Rusty Russell
2012-05-24 14:03 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 9:27 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 9:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-24 9:46 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-24 14:06 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 8:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-24 8:48 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-24 9:02 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-24 9:45 ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-24 15:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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