On my Skylake laptop, INVPCID function 2 (flush absolutely
everything) takes about 376ns, whereas saving flags, twiddling
CR4.PGE to flush global mappings, and restoring flags takes about
539ns.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 20fc38d8478a..4eba5164430d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -145,6 +145,15 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_global(void)
{
unsigned long flags;
+ if (static_cpu_has_safe(X86_FEATURE_INVPCID)) {
+ /*
+ * Using INVPCID is considerably faster than a pair of writes
+ * to CR4 sandwiched inside an IRQ flag save/restore.
+ */
+ invpcid_flush_everything();
+ return;
+ }
+
/*
* Read-modify-write to CR4 - protect it from preemption and
* from interrupts. (Use the raw variant because this code can
--
2.5.0
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