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On extreme TLB shootdown storms, the mm's tlb_gen cacheline is highly contended and reading it should (arguably) be avoided as much as possible. Currently, flush_tlb_func() reads the mm's tlb_gen unconditionally, even when it is not necessary (e.g., the mm was already switched). This is wasteful. Moreover, one of the existing optimizations is to read mm's tlb_gen to see if there are additional in-flight TLB invalidations and flush the entire TLB in such a case. However, if the request's tlb_gen was already flushed, the benefit of checking the mm's tlb_gen is likely to be offset by the overhead of the check itself. Running will-it-scale with tlb_flush1_threads show a considerable benefit on 56-core Skylake (up to +24%): threads Baseline (v5.17+) +Patch 1 159960 160202 5 310808 308378 (-0.7%) 10 479110 490728 15 526771 562528 20 534495 587316 25 547462 628296 30 579616 666313 35 594134 701814 40 612288 732967 45 617517 749727 50 637476 735497 55 614363 778913 (+24%) Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220606180123.2485171-1-namit@vmware.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.