Re: [PATCH] mm: Add new vma flag VM_LOCAL_CPU

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 14 May 2018 20:28:01 +0300 Boaz Harrosh <boazh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On a call to mmap an mmap provider (like an FS) can put
> this flag on vma->vm_flags.
> 
> The VM_LOCAL_CPU flag tells the Kernel that the vma will be used
> from a single-core only, and therefore invalidation (flush_tlb) of
> PTE(s) need not be a wide CPU scheduling.
> 
> The motivation of this flag is the ZUFS project where we want
> to optimally map user-application buffers into a user-mode-server
> execute the operation and efficiently unmap.
> 
> In this project we utilize a per-core server thread so everything
> is kept local. If we use the regular zap_ptes() API All CPU's
> are scheduled for the unmap, though in our case we know that we
> have only used a single core. The regular zap_ptes adds a very big
> latency on every operation and mostly kills the concurrency of the
> over all system. Because it imposes a serialization between all cores

I'd have thought that in this situation, only the local CPU's bit is
set in the vma's mm_cpumask() and the remote invalidations are not
performed.  Is that a misunderstanding, or is all that stuff not working
correctly?