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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Use INVPCID to flush global mappings
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:10:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180215121040.20585-1-wei.liu2@citrix.com> (raw)

I wrote these patches sometime ago to explore PCID and INVPCID. I haven't
thought through whether how to use both in Xen yet. But seeing Juergen laid out
his thought on PCID and INVPCID I think some of the patches can be useful.

I had done some benchmark on the speed in one of my older branch by inserting
some trace points before and after the flush. It showed that twiddling CR4.PGE
is 3 to 5 times slower than invpcid.

This series is in incomplete -- obviously we have CR4.PGE twiddling in a few
other places. But if you think it is beneficial I can try to convert those
places as well.

Wei.

Wei Liu (4):
  x86: introduce cpu_has_invpcid
  x86: report if PCID and INVPCID are supported
  x86: add invpcid.h
  x86: use invpcid to do global flush

 xen/arch/x86/flushtlb.c          | 22 ++++++++++++---
 xen/arch/x86/setup.c             |  7 +++++
 xen/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h |  1 +
 xen/include/asm-x86/invpcid.h    | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 xen/include/asm-x86/invpcid.h

-- 
2.11.0


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             reply	other threads:[~2018-02-15 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-15 12:10 Wei Liu [this message]
2018-02-15 12:10 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] x86: introduce cpu_has_invpcid Wei Liu
2018-02-15 12:31   ` Jan Beulich
2018-02-15 12:10 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] x86: report if PCID and INVPCID are supported Wei Liu
2018-02-15 12:10 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] x86: add invpcid.h Wei Liu
2018-02-15 12:15   ` Andrew Cooper
2018-02-15 12:24     ` Wei Liu
2018-02-15 12:26       ` Andrew Cooper
2018-02-15 12:34   ` Jan Beulich
2018-02-15 12:35     ` Wei Liu
2018-02-15 13:23       ` Jan Beulich
2018-02-15 12:10 ` [PATCH RFC 4/4] x86: use invpcid to do global flush Wei Liu
2018-02-15 15:38 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] Use INVPCID to flush global mappings Juergen Gross

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