x86 has no flush_tlb_range support in instruction level. Currently the
flush_tlb_range just implemented by flushing all page table. That is not
the best solution for all scenarios. In fact, if we just use 'invlpg' to
flush few lines from TLB, we can get the performance gain from later
remain TLB lines accessing.
But the 'invlpg' instruction costs much of time. Its execution time can
compete with cr3 rewriting, and even a bit more on SNB CPU.
So, on a 512 4KB TLB entries CPU, the balance points is at:
(512 - X) * 100ns(assumed TLB refill cost) =
X(TLB flush entries) * 100ns(assumed invlpg cost)
Here, X is 256, that is 1/2 of 512 entries.
But with the mysterious CPU pre-fetcher and page miss handler Unit, the
assumed TLB refill cost is far lower then 100ns in sequential access. And
2 HT siblings in one core makes the memory access more faster if they are
accessing the same memory. So, in the patch, I just do the change when
the target entries is less than 1/16 of whole active tlb entries.
Actually, I have no data support for the percentage '1/16', so any
suggestions are welcomed.
As to hugetlb, guess due to smaller page table, and smaller active TLB
entries, I didn't see benefit via my benchmark, so no optimizing now.
My micro benchmark show in ideal scenarios, the performance improves 70
percent in reading. And in worst scenario, the reading/writing
performance is similar with unpatched 3.4-rc4 kernel.
Here is the reading data on my 2P * 4cores *HT NHM EP machine, with THP
'always':
multi thread testing, '-t' paramter is thread number:
with patch unpatched 3.4-rc4
./mprotect -t 1 14ns 24ns
./mprotect -t 2 13ns 22ns
./mprotect -t 4 12ns 19ns
./mprotect -t 8 14ns 16ns
./mprotect -t 16 28ns 26ns
./mprotect -t 32 54ns 51ns
./mprotect -t 128 200ns 199ns
Single process with sequencial flushing and memory accessing:
with patch unpatched 3.4-rc4
./mprotect 7ns 11ns
./mprotect -p 4096 -l 8 -n 10240
21ns 21ns
[ hpa: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1B4B44D9196EFF41AE41FDA404FC0A100BFF94@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com
has additional performance numbers. ]
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-3-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Enable NMI on all cpus in UV system and add an NMI handler
to dump_stack on each cpu.
By default on x86 all the cpus except the boot cpu have NMI
masked off. This patch enables NMI on all cpus in UV system
and adds an NMI handler to dump_stack on each cpu. This
way if a system hangs we can NMI the machine and get a
backtrace from all the cpus.
Version 2: Use x86_platform driver mechanism for nmi init, per
Ingo's suggestion.
Version 3: Clean up Ingo's nits.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100226164912.GA24439@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
x86_quirks->update_apic() calling looks crazy. so try to remove it:
1. every apic take wakeup_cpu member directly
2. separate es7000_apic to es7000_apic_cluster
3. use uv_wakeup_cpu directly
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Fixes warning
Fix uv.h struct usage:
arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h:16: warning: 'struct mm_struct' declared inside parameter list
arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h:16: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Make X86 SGI Ultraviolet support configurable. Saves about 13K of text size
on my modest config.
text data bss dec hex filename
6770537 1158680 694356 8623573 8395d5 vmlinux
6757492 1157664 694228 8609384 835e68 vmlinux.nouv
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Make the following uv related cleanups.
* collect visible uv related definitions and interfaces into uv/uv.h
and use it. this cleans up the messy situation where on 64bit, uv
is defined properly, on 32bit generic it's dummy and on the rest
undefined. after this clean up, uv is defined on 64 and dummy on
32.
* update uv_flush_tlb_others() such that it takes cpumask of
to-be-flushed cpus as argument, instead of that minus self, and
returns yet-to-be-flushed cpumask, instead of modifying the passed
in parameter. this interface change will ease dummy implementation
of uv_flush_tlb_others() and makes uv tlb flush related stuff
defined in tlb_uv proper.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Alex Shi