Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2011-06-29

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/book3e-64: use a separate TLB handler when linear map is bolted

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2011-06-29 07:50:40

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 16:25 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
On MMUs such as FSL where we can guarantee the entire linear mapping is
bolted, we don't need to worry about linear TLB misses.  If on top of
that we do a full table walk, we get rid of all recursive TLB faults, and
can dispense with some state saving.  This gains a few percent on
TLB-miss-heavy workloads, and around 50% on a benchmark that had a high
rate of virtual page table faults under the normal handler.

While touching the EX_TLB layout, remove EX_TLB_MMUCR0, EX_TLB_SRR0, and
EX_TLB_SRR1 as they're not used.
I merged that into -next, but it was breaking 64K pages on WSP, I had to
add an ifdef in there to skip the PUD level when walking the page tables
(PUD_SHIFT isn't defined for asm when doing 64K pages).

Please check I didn't break anything.

Cheers,
Ben.
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