Alexandre Ghiti 9d4e8d5fa7
riscv: Make __flush_tlb_range() loop over pte instead of flushing the whole tlb
Currently, when the range to flush covers more than one page (a 4K page or
a hugepage), __flush_tlb_range() flushes the whole tlb. Flushing the whole
tlb comes with a greater cost than flushing a single entry so we should
flush single entries up to a certain threshold so that:
threshold * cost of flushing a single entry < cost of flushing the whole
tlb.

Co-developed-by: Mayuresh Chitale <mchitale@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Mayuresh Chitale <mchitale@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Tested-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> # On RZ/Five SMARC
Reviewed-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Tested-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231030133027.19542-4-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2023-11-06 07:20:51 -08:00
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