[PATCH v7 3/8] x86/tlb: fall back to flush all when meet a THP large page

From: Alex Shi
Date: Wed May 23 2012 - 10:17:21 EST


We don't need to flush large pages by PAGE_SIZE step, that just waste
time. and actually, large page don't need 'invlpg' optimizing according
to our macro benchmark. So, just flush whole TLB is enough for them.

The following result is tested on a 2CPU * 4cores * 2HT NHM EP machine,
with THP 'always' setting.

Multi-thread testing, '-t' paramter is thread number:
without this patch with this patch
./mprotect -t 1 14ns 13ns
./mprotect -t 2 13ns 13ns
./mprotect -t 4 12ns 11ns
./mprotect -t 8 14ns 10ns
./mprotect -t 16 28ns 28ns
./mprotect -t 32 54ns 52ns
./mprotect -t 128 200ns 200ns

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index 7d92079..22e5bb1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -316,12 +316,42 @@ void flush_tlb_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)

#define FLUSHALL_BAR 16

+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+static inline int has_large_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
+ unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+ pgd_t *pgd;
+ pud_t *pud;
+ pmd_t *pmd;
+ unsigned long addr = ALIGN(start, HPAGE_SIZE);
+ for (; addr < end; addr += HPAGE_SIZE) {
+ pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
+ if (likely(!pgd_none(*pgd))) {
+ pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr);
+ if (likely(!pud_none(*pud))) {
+ pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
+ if (likely(!pmd_none(*pmd)))
+ if (pmd_large(*pmd))
+ return 1;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+#else
+static inline int has_large_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
+ unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif
void flush_tlb_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
struct mm_struct *mm;

if (!cpu_has_invlpg || vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB) {
+flush_all:
flush_tlb_mm(vma->vm_mm);
return;
}
@@ -344,6 +374,10 @@ void flush_tlb_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if ((end - start)/PAGE_SIZE > act_entries/FLUSHALL_BAR)
local_flush_tlb();
else {
+ if (has_large_page(mm, start, end)) {
+ preempt_enable();
+ goto flush_all;
+ }
for (addr = start; addr <= end;
addr += PAGE_SIZE)
__flush_tlb_single(addr);
--
1.7.5.4

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