On Tue, 2017-11-07 at 07:53:08 UTC, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
The single page flush ceiling is the cut-off point at which we switch
from invalidating individual pages, to invalidating the entire process
address space in response to a range flush.
Introduce a local variant of this heuristic because local and global
tlbie have significantly different properties:
- Local tlbiel requires 128 instructions to invalidate a PID, global
tlbie only 1 instruction.
- Global tlbie instructions are expensive broadcast operations.
The local ceiling has been made much higher, 2x the number of
instructions required to invalidate the entire PID (i.e., 256 pages).
Time to mprotect N pages of memory (after mmap, touch), local invalidate:
N 32 34 64 128 256 512
vanilla 7.4us 9.0us 14.6us 26.4us 50.2us 98.3us
patched 7.4us 7.8us 13.8us 26.4us 51.9us 98.3us
The behaviour of both is identical at N=32 and N=512. Between there,
the vanilla kernel does a PID invalidate and the patched kernel does
a va range invalidate.
At N=128, these require the same number of tlbiel instructions, so
the patched version can be sen to be cheaper when < 128, and more
expensive when > 128. However this does not well capture the cost
of invalidated TLB.
The additional cost at 256 pages does not seem prohibitive. It may
be the case that increasing the limit further would continue to be
beneficial to avoid invalidating all of the process's TLB entries.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f6f27951fdf84a6edca3ea14077268
cheers