linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h
Alex Shi e7b52ffd45 x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range
x86 has no flush_tlb_range support in instruction level. Currently the
flush_tlb_range just implemented by flushing all page table. That is not
the best solution for all scenarios. In fact, if we just use 'invlpg' to
flush few lines from TLB, we can get the performance gain from later
remain TLB lines accessing.

But the 'invlpg' instruction costs much of time. Its execution time can
compete with cr3 rewriting, and even a bit more on SNB CPU.

So, on a 512 4KB TLB entries CPU, the balance points is at:
	(512 - X) * 100ns(assumed TLB refill cost) =
		X(TLB flush entries) * 100ns(assumed invlpg cost)

Here, X is 256, that is 1/2 of 512 entries.

But with the mysterious CPU pre-fetcher and page miss handler Unit, the
assumed TLB refill cost is far lower then 100ns in sequential access. And
2 HT siblings in one core makes the memory access more faster if they are
accessing the same memory. So, in the patch, I just do the change when
the target entries is less than 1/16 of whole active tlb entries.
Actually, I have no data support for the percentage '1/16', so any
suggestions are welcomed.

As to hugetlb, guess due to smaller page table, and smaller active TLB
entries, I didn't see benefit via my benchmark, so no optimizing now.

My micro benchmark show in ideal scenarios, the performance improves 70
percent in reading. And in worst scenario, the reading/writing
performance is similar with unpatched 3.4-rc4 kernel.

Here is the reading data on my 2P * 4cores *HT NHM EP machine, with THP
'always':

multi thread testing, '-t' paramter is thread number:
	       	        with patch   unpatched 3.4-rc4
./mprotect -t 1           14ns		24ns
./mprotect -t 2           13ns		22ns
./mprotect -t 4           12ns		19ns
./mprotect -t 8           14ns		16ns
./mprotect -t 16          28ns		26ns
./mprotect -t 32          54ns		51ns
./mprotect -t 128         200ns		199ns

Single process with sequencial flushing and memory accessing:

		       	with patch   unpatched 3.4-rc4
./mprotect		    7ns			11ns
./mprotect -p 4096  -l 8 -n 10240
			    21ns		21ns

[ hpa: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1B4B44D9196EFF41AE41FDA404FC0A100BFF94@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com
  has additional performance numbers. ]

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-3-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-06-27 19:29:07 -07:00

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#ifndef _ASM_X86_UV_UV_H
#define _ASM_X86_UV_UV_H
enum uv_system_type {UV_NONE, UV_LEGACY_APIC, UV_X2APIC, UV_NON_UNIQUE_APIC};
struct cpumask;
struct mm_struct;
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_UV
extern enum uv_system_type get_uv_system_type(void);
extern int is_uv_system(void);
extern void uv_cpu_init(void);
extern void uv_nmi_init(void);
extern void uv_system_init(void);
extern const struct cpumask *uv_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start,
unsigned end,
unsigned int cpu);
#else /* X86_UV */
static inline enum uv_system_type get_uv_system_type(void) { return UV_NONE; }
static inline int is_uv_system(void) { return 0; }
static inline void uv_cpu_init(void) { }
static inline void uv_system_init(void) { }
static inline const struct cpumask *
uv_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end, unsigned int cpu)
{ return cpumask; }
#endif /* X86_UV */
#endif /* _ASM_X86_UV_UV_H */