linux/arch
Alex Shi d8dfe60d6d x86/tlb: fall back to flush all when meet a THP large page
We don't need to flush large pages by PAGE_SIZE step, that just waste
time. and actually, large page don't need 'invlpg' optimizing according
to our micro benchmark. So, just flush whole TLB is enough for them.

The following result is tested on a 2CPU * 4cores * 2HT NHM EP machine,
with THP 'always' setting.

Multi-thread testing, '-t' paramter is thread number:
                       without this patch 	with this patch
./mprotect -t 1         14ns                       13ns
./mprotect -t 2         13ns                       13ns
./mprotect -t 4         12ns                       11ns
./mprotect -t 8         14ns                       10ns
./mprotect -t 16        28ns                       28ns
./mprotect -t 32        54ns                       52ns
./mprotect -t 128       200ns                      200ns

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-4-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2012-06-27 19:29:09 -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: fall back to flush all when meet a THP large page 2012-06-27 19:29:09 -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