Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Don't flush the TLB on #WP pmd fixups

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Nov 20 2012 - 07:31:51 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > numa/core profile:
> >
> > 95.66% perf-1201.map [.] 0x00007fe4ad1c8fc7
> > 1.70% libjvm.so [.] 0x0000000000381581
> > 0.59% [vdso] [.] 0x0000000000000607
> > 0.19% [kernel] [k] do_raw_spin_lock
> > 0.11% [kernel] [k] generic_smp_call_function_interrupt
> > 0.11% [kernel] [k] timekeeping_get_ns.constprop.7
> > 0.08% [kernel] [k] ktime_get
> > 0.06% [kernel] [k] get_cycles
> > 0.05% [kernel] [k] __native_flush_tlb
> > 0.05% [kernel] [k] rep_nop
> > 0.04% perf [.] add_hist_entry.isra.9
> > 0.04% [kernel] [k] rcu_check_callbacks
> > 0.04% [kernel] [k] ktime_get_update_offsets
> > 0.04% libc-2.15.so [.] __strcmp_sse2
> >
> > No page fault overhead (see the page fault rate further below)
> > - the NUMA scanning overhead shows up only through some mild
> > TLB flush activity (which I'll fix btw).
>
> The patch attached below should get rid of that mild TLB
> flushing activity as well.

This has further increased SPECjbb from 203k/sec to 207k/sec,
i.e. it's now 5% faster than mainline - THP enabled.

The profile is now totally flat even during a full 32-WH SPECjbb
run, with the highest overhead entries left all related to timer
IRQ processing or profiling. That is on a system that should be
very close to yours.

Thanks,

Ingo
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