linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Nicholas Piggin 89ca4e126a powerpc/64s/hash: Add a SLB preload cache
When switching processes, currently all user SLBEs are cleared, and a
few (exec_base, pc, and stack) are preloaded. In trivial testing with
small apps, this tends to miss the heap and low 256MB segments, and it
will also miss commonly accessed segments on large memory workloads.

Add a simple round-robin preload cache that just inserts the last SLB
miss into the head of the cache and preloads those at context switch
time. Every 256 context switches, the oldest entry is removed from the
cache to shrink the cache and require fewer slbmte if they are unused.

Much more could go into this, including into the SLB entry reclaim
side to track some LRU information etc, which would require a study of
large memory workloads. But this is a simple thing we can do now that
is an obvious win for common workloads.

With the full series, process switching speed on the context_switch
benchmark on POWER9/hash (with kernel speculation security masures
disabled) increases from 140K/s to 178K/s (27%).

POWER8 does not change much (within 1%), it's unclear why it does not
see a big gain like POWER9.

Booting to busybox init with 256MB segments has SLB misses go down
from 945 to 69, and with 1T segments 900 to 21. These could almost all
be eliminated by preloading a bit more carefully with ELF binary
loading.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-09-19 22:01:56 +10:00
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alpha Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-08-24 09:25:39 -07:00
arc ARC: don't check for HIGHMEM pages in arch_dma_alloc 2018-09-04 13:21:38 -07:00
arm Fixes for KVM/ARM for Linux v4.19 v2: 2018-09-07 18:38:25 +02:00
arm64 KVM fixes for 4.19-rc3 2018-09-08 15:52:45 -07:00
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hexagon kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS 2018-08-24 08:22:08 +09:00
ia64 ia64: Fix allnoconfig section mismatch for ioc_init/ioc_iommu_info 2018-08-22 14:12:47 -07:00
m68k m68k: fix early memory reservation for ColdFire MMU systems 2018-09-03 10:19:36 +10:00
microblaze kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS 2018-08-24 08:22:08 +09:00
mips KVM fixes for 4.19-rc3 2018-09-08 15:52:45 -07:00
nds32 nds32: linker script: GCOV kernel may refers data in __exit 2018-09-05 10:16:26 +08:00
nios2 nios2: kconfig: remove duplicate DEBUG_STACK_USAGE symbol defintions 2018-08-27 09:47:20 +08:00
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powerpc powerpc/64s/hash: Add a SLB preload cache 2018-09-19 22:01:56 +10:00
riscv RISC-V: Use a less ugly workaround for unused variable warnings 2018-08-28 12:58:36 -07:00
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sh kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS 2018-08-24 08:22:08 +09:00
sparc sparc: set a default 32-bit dma mask for OF devices 2018-09-02 10:02:04 +02:00
um kbuild: rename LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS 2018-08-24 08:22:08 +09:00
unicore32 mm: convert return type of handle_mm_fault() caller to vm_fault_t 2018-08-17 16:20:28 -07:00
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