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Aneesh Kumar K.V e21dfbf013 powerpc/mm/book3s64: Avoid sending IPI on clearing PMD
Now that all the lockless page table walk is careful w.r.t the PTE
address returned, we can now revert
commit: 13bd817bb8 ("powerpc/thp: Serialize pmd clear against a linux page table walk.")

We also drop the equivalent IPI from other pte updates routines. We still keep
IPI in hash pmdp collapse and that is to take care of parallel hash page table
insert. The radix pmdp collapse flush can possibly be removed once I am sure
generic code doesn't have the any expectations around parallel gup walk.

This speeds up Qemu guest RAM del/unplug time as below

128 core, 496GB guest:

Without patch:
munmap start: timer = 13162 ms, PID=7684
munmap finish: timer = 95312 ms, PID=7684 - delta = 82150 ms

With patch:
munmap start: timer = 196449 ms, PID=6681
munmap finish: timer = 196488 ms, PID=6681 - delta = 39ms

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200505071729.54912-21-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
2020-05-05 21:20:16 +10:00
Documentation hwmon fixes for v5.7-rc2 2020-04-18 13:28:09 -07:00
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arch powerpc/mm/book3s64: Avoid sending IPI on clearing PMD 2020-05-05 21:20:16 +10:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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