Re: [PATCH 0/7] x86/mm/tlb: make lazy TLB mode even lazier

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Oct 24 2018 - 01:53:31 EST



* Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The big thing remaining is the reference count overhead of
> the lazy TLB mm_struct, but getting rid of that is rather a
> lot of code for a small performance gain. Not quite what
> Linus asked for :)

BTW., what would be the plan to improve scalability there,
is it even possible?

Also, it would be nice to integrate some of those workloads
into a simple 'perf bench mm' or 'perf bench tlb' subcommand,
see tools/perf/bench/ on how to add benchmarking modules.

Thanks,

Ingo