On a 16-socket 192-core POWER8 system, a context switching benchmark with as many software threads as CPUs (so each switch will go in and out of idle), upstream can achieve a rate of about 1 million context switches per second. After this patch it goes up to 118 million. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index e9f13fe08492..d4793c0229d2 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ config PPC select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE select MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE + select MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN if PPC_BOOK3S_64 select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE if PPC_BOOK3S_64 && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS -- 2.23.0
