From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Now that we have some shiny new tracepoints, we can actually
figure out what the heck is going on.
During a kernel compile, 60% of the flush_tlb_mm_range() calls
are for a single page. It breaks down like this:
size percent percent<=
V V V
GLOBAL: 2.20% 2.20% avg cycles: 2283
1: 56.92% 59.12% avg cycles: 1276
2: 13.78% 72.90% avg cycles: 1505
3: 8.26% 81.16% avg cycles: 1880
4: 7.41% 88.58% avg cycles: 2447
5: 1.73% 90.31% avg cycles: 2358
6: 1.32% 91.63% avg cycles: 2563
7: 1.14% 92.77% avg cycles: 2862
8: 0.62% 93.39% avg cycles: 3542
9: 0.08% 93.47% avg cycles: 3289
10: 0.43% 93.90% avg cycles: 3570
11: 0.20% 94.10% avg cycles: 3767
12: 0.08% 94.18% avg cycles: 3996
13: 0.03% 94.20% avg cycles: 4077
14: 0.02% 94.23% avg cycles: 4836
15: 0.04% 94.26% avg cycles: 5699
16: 0.06% 94.32% avg cycles: 5041
17: 0.57% 94.89% avg cycles: 5473
18: 0.02% 94.91% avg cycles: 5396
19: 0.03% 94.95% avg cycles: 5296
20: 0.02% 94.96% avg cycles: 6749
21: 0.18% 95.14% avg cycles: 6225
22: 0.01% 95.15% avg cycles: 6393
23: 0.01% 95.16% avg cycles: 6861
24: 0.12% 95.28% avg cycles: 6912
25: 0.05% 95.32% avg cycles: 7190
26: 0.01% 95.33% avg cycles: 7793
27: 0.01% 95.34% avg cycles: 7833
28: 0.01% 95.35% avg cycles: 8253
29: 0.08% 95.42% avg cycles: 8024
30: 0.03% 95.45% avg cycles: 9670
31: 0.01% 95.46% avg cycles: 8949
32: 0.01% 95.46% avg cycles: 9350
33: 3.11% 98.57% avg cycles: 8534
34: 0.02% 98.60% avg cycles: 10977
35: 0.02% 98.62% avg cycles: 11400
We get in to dimishing returns pretty quickly. On pre-IvyBridge
CPUs, we used to set the limit at 8 pages, and it was set at 128
on IvyBrige. That 128 number looks pretty silly considering that
less than 0.5% of the flushes are that large.
The previous code tried to size this number based on the size of
the TLB. Good idea, but it's error-prone, needs maintenance
(which it didn't get up to now), and probably would not matter in
practice much.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN arch/x86/mm/tlb.c~set-tunable-to-sane-value arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c~set-tunable-to-sane-value 2014-02-18 11:05:37.304813166 -0800
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c 2014-02-18 11:05:37.306813257 -0800
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ void flush_tlb_current_task(void)
}
/* in units of pages */
-unsigned long tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling = 5;
+unsigned long tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling = 33;
void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, unsigned long vmflag)
{
_
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