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Re: [patch 0/4] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: reduce scheduling latency by changing tlb flush size

From: Tsutomu OWA <hidden>
Date: 2007-05-14 06:31:20
Also in: lkml

To reduce scheduling latecy by changing tlb flush size to 1.
Since tlb flush on Celleb is done by calling (an) expensive hypervisor call(s), 
it takes a long time to flush tlbs and causes scheduing latency.

As I don't know how long it takes on other platforms, it would be better to 
enclose it within #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_CELLEB.

Signed-off-by: Tsutomu OWA <redacted>
-- owa

diff -rup linux-2.6.21-rt1/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h rt/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h
--- linux-2.6.21-rt1/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h	2007-04-26 12:08:32.000000000 +0900
+++ rt/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h	2007-05-07 14:23:50.000000000 +0900
@@ -25,7 +25,11 @@ struct mm_struct;
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+#define PPC64_TLB_BATCH_NR 1 /* Since tlb flush takes long time, reduce it to 1 when RT */
+#else
 #define PPC64_TLB_BATCH_NR 192
+#endif /* CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT */
 
 struct ppc64_tlb_batch {
 	unsigned long index;
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