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lazy tlb: shoot lazies, a non-refcounting lazy tlb option
authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:59:19 +0000 (09:59 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 23:33:56 +0000 (09:33 +1000)
commitf88cd7cbf28955aabf5a4b131c02998cf9a232cd
treedb08da5b538aff6710a462781024c27e6d8b237a
parent2b4ab2e7181a6be0a1348d4d9a57adec830a1723
lazy tlb: shoot lazies, a non-refcounting lazy tlb option

On big systems, the mm refcount can become highly contented when doing a
lot of context switching with threaded applications (particularly
switching between the idle thread and an application thread).

Abandoning lazy tlb slows switching down quite a bit in the important
user->idle->user cases, so instead implement a non-refcounted scheme that
causes __mmdrop() to IPI all CPUs in the mm_cpumask and shoot down any
remaining lazy ones.

Shootdown IPIs are some concern, but they have not been observed to be a
big problem with this scheme (the powerpc implementation generated 314
additional interrupts on a 144 CPU system during a kernel compile).  There
are a number of strategies that could be employed to reduce IPIs if they
turn out to be a problem for some workload.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210605014216.446867-4-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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