From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Chuyi Zhou <zhouchuyi@bytedance.com>
Cc: tglx@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, luto@kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, paulmck@kernel.org, muchun.song@linux.dev,
bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
clrkwllms@kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, nadav.amit@gmail.com,
vkuznets@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 11/14] x86/mm: Cap flush_tlb_info alignment at 64 bytes
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:20:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260616132036.A4j5OW-H@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260616111127.966468-12-zhouchuyi@bytedance.com>
On 2026-06-16 19:11:24 [+0800], Chuyi Zhou wrote:
> A stack allocated flush_tlb_info should keep cacheline alignment to
> avoid the regression that motivated the per-CPU storage, but using
> SMP_CACHE_BYTES directly can make the stack frame grow excessively on
> configurations with large cache lines[1].
>
> Add FLUSH_TLB_INFO_ALIGN and cap the type alignment at 64 bytes. The
> existing per-CPU flush_tlb_info instance remains
> DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(), so its per-CPU shared-cacheline
> alignment is unchanged.
>
> The capped type alignment matters once flush_tlb_info is moved back to the
> stack by the next patch.
>
> link[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/tip-780e0106d468a2962b16b52fdf42898f2639e0a0@git.kernel.org/
I suggest to incorporate a reference such as
| See commit 780e0106d468a ("x86/mm/tlb: Revert "x86/mm: Align TLB
| invalidation info"") where the usage of SMP_CACHE_BYTES led to 320 bytes
| stack consumption.
This [1] and link and such is just forth and back.
> Signed-off-by: Chuyi Zhou <zhouchuyi@bytedance.com>
Other than that,
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Sebastian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-16 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-16 11:11 [PATCH v8 00/14] Allow preemption during IPI completion waiting to improve real-time performance Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 01/14] smp: Disable preemption explicitly in __csd_lock_wait() Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-26 13:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 02/14] smp: Enable preemption early in smp_call_function_single() Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-26 13:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 03/14] smp: Refactor remote CPU selection in smp_call_function_any() Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-26 13:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 04/14] smp: Use task-local IPI cpumask in smp_call_function_many_cond() Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-26 14:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-06-26 15:47 ` Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-26 16:07 ` Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-26 19:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-06-27 0:52 ` Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 05/14] smp: Alloc percpu csd data in smpcfd_prepare_cpu() only once Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-26 14:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 06/14] smp: Enable preemption early in smp_call_function_many_cond() Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-26 14:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 07/14] smp: Remove preempt_disable() from smp_call_function() Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-26 14:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 08/14] smp: Remove preempt_disable() from on_each_cpu_cond_mask() Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 09/14] scftorture: Remove preempt_disable() in scftorture_invoke_one() Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-26 14:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 10/14] x86/mm: Factor out flush_tlb_info initialization Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-16 13:14 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 11/14] x86/mm: Cap flush_tlb_info alignment at 64 bytes Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-16 13:20 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2026-06-16 15:36 ` Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-26 14:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 12/14] x86/mm: Move flush_tlb_info back to the stack Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-26 14:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 13/14] x86/kvm: Disable preemption in kvm_flush_tlb_multi() Chuyi Zhou
2026-06-16 13:46 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2026-06-16 11:11 ` [PATCH v8 14/14] x86/mm: Re-enable preemption before flush_tlb_multi() Chuyi Zhou
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