Boris, I think you already have these prerequisites queued up: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1452516679-32040-2-git-send-email-aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1452516679-32040-3-git-send-email-aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx This is a straightforward speedup on Ivy Bridge and newer, IIRC. (I tested on Skylake. INVPCID is not available on Sandy Bridge. I don't have Ivy Bridge, Haswell or Broadwell to test on, so I could be wrong as to when the feature was introduced.) I think we should consider these patches separately from the rest of the PCID stuff -- they barely interact, and this part is much simpler and is useful on its own. Changes from v2: - Add macros for the INVPCID mode numbers. - Add a changelog message for the chicken bit. v1 was exactly identical to patches 2-4 of the PCID RFC series. Andy Lutomirski (3): x86/mm: Add INVPCID helpers x86/mm: Add a noinvpcid option to turn off INVPCID x86/mm: If INVPCID is available, use it to flush global mappings Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 16 +++++++++++ 3 files changed, 75 insertions(+) -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>