Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/tlb: Make lazy TLB mode lazier

[Rik van Riel]

> On Jul 18, 2018, at 2:23 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 01:22:19PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>>> On Jul 18, 2018, at 12:00 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> Also, I don't suppose you've looked at the paravirt instances of
>>> flush_tlb_other() ? They don't elide the flushes because of lazy.
>> 
>> Let me look at those now :)
> 
> <snip xen>
> 
>> kvm_flush_tlb_other takes out preempted VCPUs from the flush mask, 
>> before calling native_flush_tlb_others, so it should get the optimization 
>> automatically.
> 
> Ah, ok. I wasn't entirely sure the new lazy was purely for the idle
> case. But yes, the KVM paravirt thing should get the idle case right.
> 
Not just idle, but also running in kernel threads like ksoftirqd,
kworker, kswapd, etc. However, kvm_flush_tlb_other calls
native_flush_tlb_other, so it should get that optimization automatically
from my patch series.