On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Ingo Molnar wrote:

Subject: x86/mm: Don't flush the TLB on #WP pmd fixups
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Date: Tue Nov 20 14:46:34 CET 2012

If we have a write protection #PF and fix up the pmd then the
hugetlb code [the only user of pmdp_set_access_flags], in its
do_huge_pmd_wp_page() page fault resolution function calls
pmdp_set_access_flags() to mark the pmd permissive again,
and flushes the TLB.

This TLB flush is unnecessary: a flush on #PF is guaranteed on
most (all?) x86 CPUs, and even in the worst-case we'll generate
a spurious fault.

So remove it.

This patch did not cause the 2% speedup that you reported with THP 
enabled for me:

   numa/core at ec05a2311c35:           136918.34 SPECjbb2005 bops
   numa/core at 01aa90068b12:           128315.19 SPECjbb2005 bops (-6.3%)
   numa/core at 01aa90068b12 + patch:   128184.77 SPECjbb2005 bops (-6.4%)

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