Re: [patch]x86: spread tlb flush vector between nodes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Oct 19 2010 - 06:38:15 EST



* Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:44 +0800, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Technically, it is way too late for anything new in this merge window, but we can
> > > try to make a reasonable assessment of the risk since the merge window got
> > > delayed. However, this close to the merge window you cannot just expect to be
> > > merged even if the patch itself is OK.
> >
> > a prompt re-send of the patch today-ish, with proper changelog, etc. and with
> > the new tuning in place is definitely a must.
>
> the previous patch has changelog. what did you mean a new tuning?

The new tuning would be the 8->32 patch - but that would be a more complex and
separate (and definitely controversial) patch anyway.

So if hpa gives his ack we can try this current spread-tlb-vectors-better patch in
-tip and see how it fares. Could you please update the changelog to specify the 20%
improvement more precisely? What kind of workload was used and how was the
improvement measured?

Thanks,

Ingo
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