linux/arch
Alex Shi 611ae8e3f5 x86/tlb: enable tlb flush range support for x86
Not every tlb_flush execution moment is really need to evacuate all
TLB entries, like in munmap, just few 'invlpg' is better for whole
process performance, since it leaves most of TLB entries for later
accessing.

This patch also rewrite flush_tlb_range for 2 purposes:
1, split it out to get flush_blt_mm_range function.
2, clean up to reduce line breaking, thanks for Borislav's input.

My micro benchmark 'mummap' http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/17/59
show that the random memory access on other CPU has 0~50% speed up
on a 2P * 4cores * HT NHM EP while do 'munmap'.

Thanks Yongjie's testing on this patch:
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I used Linux 3.4-RC6 w/ and w/o his patches as Xen dom0 and guest
kernel.
After running two benchmarks in Xen HVM guest, I found his patches
brought about 1%~3% performance gain in 'kernel build' and 'netperf'
testing, though the performance gain was not very stable in 'kernel
build' testing.

Some detailed testing results are below.

Testing Environment:
	Hardware: Romley-EP platform
	Xen version: latest upstream
	Linux kernel: 3.4-RC6
	Guest vCPU number: 8
	NIC: Intel 82599 (10GB bandwidth)

In 'kernel build' testing in guest:
	Command line  |  performance gain
    make -j 4      |    3.81%
    make -j 8      |    0.37%
    make -j 16     |    -0.52%

In 'netperf' testing, we tested TCP_STREAM with default socket size
16384 byte as large packet and 64 byte as small packet.
I used several clients to add networking pressure, then 'netperf' server
automatically generated several threads to response them.
I also used large-size packet and small-size packet in the testing.
	Packet size  |  Thread number | performance gain
	16384 bytes  |      4       |   0.02%
	16384 bytes  |      8       |   2.21%
	16384 bytes  |      16      |   2.04%
	64 bytes     |      4       |   1.07%
	64 bytes     |      8       |   3.31%
	64 bytes     |      16      |   0.71%

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-8-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Tested-by: Ren, Yongjie <yongjie.ren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-06-27 19:29:11 -07:00
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alpha Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping 2012-06-05 13:23:17 -07:00
avr32 fixups for signal breakage 2012-06-04 17:47:34 -04:00
blackfin Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-06-05 09:47:15 -07:00
c6x new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
cris Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
frv frv: Remove bogus closing parenthesis 2012-06-02 10:38:19 -04:00
h8300 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
hexagon new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
ia64 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
microblaze new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
mips - More robust parsing especially of xattr data in JFFS2 2012-06-01 16:55:42 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
openrisc new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
parisc [PARISC] fix code to find libgcc 2012-06-05 14:10:23 +09:00
powerpc powerpc: Fix kernel panic during kernel module load 2012-06-08 19:59:08 +10:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
score new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
sh - More robust parsing especially of xattr data in JFFS2 2012-06-01 16:55:42 -07:00
sparc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-06-01 11:53:44 -07:00
tile tile: add #include to unbreak build after generic init_task conversion 2012-06-06 11:29:35 -04:00
um new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
unicore32 new helper: signal_delivered() 2012-06-01 12:58:52 -04:00
x86 x86/tlb: enable tlb flush range support for x86 2012-06-27 19:29:11 -07:00
xtensa fixups for signal breakage 2012-06-04 17:47:34 -04:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping 2012-05-25 09:18:59 -07:00