Re: [PATCH 06/12] x86/mm: use INVLPGB for kernel TLB flushes

[Rik van Riel]

On Fri, 2025-01-10 at 07:14 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 1/9/25 22:07, Nadav Amit wrote:
> > This is not my reading. I think that this reading assumes that
> > besides
> > the broadcast, some new “range flush” was added to the TLB. My
> > guess
> > is that this not the case, since presumably it would require a
> > different
> > TLB structure (and who does 2 changes at once 😉 ).
> 
> Reading it again, I think you're right.
> 
> The INVLPG and INVLPGB language is too close. It would also _talk_
> about
> invalidating a range rather than just incrementing an address to
> invalidate.
> 
> I think the key thing we need to decide is whether to treat a single
> INVLPGB(stride=8) more like a single INVLPGB or eight INVLPGBs.
> Measuring a bunch of invalidation looks should tell us that.

Would I be wrong to assume that the CPUs have
some optimizations built in to efficiently
execute an invalidation for "everything in a
PCID"?

The "global invalidate" we send does not
zap everything in the TLB, but only the
translations for a single PCID.

I suppose we should measure these things
at some point (after I do the other
cleanups?), because the CPUs may well have
made a bunch of optimizations that we
don't know about.

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