There are three performance benefits here: 1. TLB flushing is slow. (I.e. the flush itself takes a while.) This avoids many of them when switching tasks by using PCID. In a stupid little benchmark I did, it saves about 100ns on my laptop per context switch. I'll try to improve that benchmark. 2. Mms that have been used recently on a given CPU might get to keep their TLB entries alive across process switches with this patch set. TLB fills are pretty fast on modern CPUs, but they're even faster when they don't happen. 3. Lazy TLB is way better. We used to do two stupid things when we ran kernel threads: we'd send IPIs to flush user contexts on their CPUs and then we'd write to CR3 for no particular reason as an excuse to stop further IPIs. With this patch, we do neither. This will, in general, perform suboptimally if paravirt TLB flushing is in use (currently just Xen, I think, but Hyper-V is in the works). The code is structured so we could fix it in one of two ways: we could take a spinlock when touching the percpu state so we can update it remotely after a paravirt flush, or we could be more careful about our exactly how we access the state and use cmpxchg16b to do atomic remote updates. (On SMP systems without cmpxchg16b, we'd just skip the optimization entirely.) This is based on tip:x86/mm. The branch is here if you want to play: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/log/?h=x86/pcid Changes from v2: - Add some Acks - Move the reentrancy issue to the beginning. (I also sent the same patch as a standalone fix -- it's just in here so that this series applies to x86/mm.) - Fix some comments. Changes from RFC: - flush_tlb_func_common() no longer gets reentered (Nadav) - Fix ASID corruption on unlazying (kbuild bot) - Move Xen init to the right place - Misc cleanups Andy Lutomirski (11): x86/mm: Don't reenter flush_tlb_func_common() x86/ldt: Simplify LDT switching logic x86/mm: Remove reset_lazy_tlbstate() x86/mm: Give each mm TLB flush generation a unique ID x86/mm: Track the TLB's tlb_gen and update the flushing algorithm x86/mm: Rework lazy TLB mode and TLB freshness tracking x86/mm: Stop calling leave_mm() in idle code x86/mm: Disable PCID on 32-bit kernels x86/mm: Add nopcid to turn off PCID x86/mm: Enable CR4.PCIDE on supported systems x86/mm: Try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 + arch/ia64/include/asm/acpi.h | 2 - arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h | 2 - arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/mmu.h | 25 +- arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 40 ++- arch/x86/include/asm/processor-flags.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 89 +++++- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 8 + arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 33 +++ arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 1 - arch/x86/mm/init.c | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 368 +++++++++++++++--------- arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c | 6 + arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c | 3 +- drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 2 - drivers/idle/intel_idle.c | 9 +- 17 files changed, 430 insertions(+), 168 deletions(-) -- 2.9.4 -- 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>
