From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com,
khalid.aziz@oracle.com, minchan@kernel.org,
aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com,
sfr@canb.auug.org.au, mingo@kernel.org, chris.hyser@oracle.com,
dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com, toshi.kani@hpe.com, tony.luck@intel.com,
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sparc64: Reduce TLB flushes during hugepte changes
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:41:05 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160329.194105.2209941679960771383.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459285913-141365-1-git-send-email-nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com>
From: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:11:14 -0700
> During hugepage map/unmap, TSB and TLB flushes are currently
> issued at every PAGE_SIZE'd boundary which is unnecessary.
> We now issue the flush at REAL_HPAGE_SIZE boundaries only.
>
> Without this patch workloads which unmap a large hugepage
> backed VMA region get CPU lockups due to excessive TLB
> flush calls.
>
> Orabug: 22365539, 22643230, 22995196
>
> Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com>
You really need to put some more work into this, there are lots of
config variants you didn't even test.
See the kbuild robot replies...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-29 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-29 21:11 Nitin Gupta
2016-03-29 21:25 ` kbuild test robot
2016-03-29 22:38 ` kbuild test robot
2016-03-29 23:41 ` David Miller [this message]
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