[PATCH v2 0/6] Avoid cache trashing on clearing huge/gigantic page
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From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-09 15:03:20
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linux-mips, linux-mm, linux-sh, lkml, sparclinux
Subsystem:
memory management, memory management - core, memory management - thp (transparent huge page), the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit), x86 mm · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, Andy Lutomirski, Peter Zijlstra
Status: Superseded by v4 (posted 2012-08-20). [go to v4]
Revision v2 (4 revisions archived).
Revisions (4)
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <redacted> Clearing a 2MB huge page will typically blow away several levels of CPU caches. To avoid this only cache clear the 4K area around the fault address and use a cache avoiding clears for the rest of the 2MB area. This patchset implements cache avoiding version of clear_page only for x86. If an architecture wants to provide cache avoiding version of clear_page it should to define ARCH_HAS_USER_NOCACHE to 1 and implement clear_page_nocache() and clear_user_highpage_nocache(). v2: - No code change. Only commit messages are updated. - RFC mark is dropped. Andi Kleen (6): THP: Use real address for NUMA policy mm: make clear_huge_page tolerate non aligned address THP: Pass real, not rounded, address to clear_huge_page x86: Add clear_page_nocache mm: make clear_huge_page cache clear only around the fault address x86: switch the 64bit uncached page clear to SSE/AVX v2 arch/x86/include/asm/page.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h | 5 ++ arch/x86/include/asm/string_64.h | 5 ++ arch/x86/lib/Makefile | 1 + arch/x86/lib/clear_page_nocache_32.S | 30 +++++++++++ arch/x86/lib/clear_page_nocache_64.S | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 7 +++ mm/huge_memory.c | 17 +++--- mm/memory.c | 29 ++++++++++- 9 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/x86/lib/clear_page_nocache_32.S create mode 100644 arch/x86/lib/clear_page_nocache_64.S -- 1.7.7.6