From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: parallel load of modules on an ARM multicore
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:12:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110623151249.GA23234@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110623145229.GA18409@1n450.cable.virginmedia.net>
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 03:52:29PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Peter,
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 04:39:01PM +0200, EXTERNAL Waechtler Peter (Fa. TCP, CM-AI/PJ-CF31) wrote:
> > it's interesting that you almost agree with me.
> >
> > But isn't it really expensive to flush the icache on switch_mm?
> > Is that meant as a test to see if the problem goes away?
>
> Who said anything about flushing the icache on switch_mm()? My patch
> doesn't do this, it actually reduces the amount of cache flushing on
> ARM11MPCore.
Ahem, your patch does:
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
/* check for possible thread migration */
if (!cpumask_empty(mm_cpumask(next)) &&
- !cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next)))
+ (cache_ops_need_broadcast() ||
+ !cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next))))
__flush_icache_all();
#endif
if (!cpumask_test_and_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next)) || prev != next) {
This means that if cache_ops_need_broadcast() is true, we will flush
the I-cache at every MM context switch as very few MMs will have an
empty mm_cpumask().
Far from reducing the number of I-cache flushes, this will significantly
increase the flushing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-23 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-20 13:43 parallel load of modules on an ARM multicore EXTERNAL Waechtler Peter (Fa. TCP, CM-AI/PJ-CF31)
2011-06-21 15:50 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-06-23 14:39 ` AW: " EXTERNAL Waechtler Peter (Fa. TCP, CM-AI/PJ-CF31)
2011-06-23 14:52 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-06-23 15:12 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-06-23 15:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-06-23 17:02 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-06-23 15:20 ` AW: " EXTERNAL Waechtler Peter (Fa. TCP, CM-AI/PJ-CF31)
2011-07-07 4:25 ` George G. Davis
2011-10-20 4:04 ` George G. Davis
2011-09-22 7:29 ` George G. Davis
2011-09-22 8:52 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-10-06 4:29 ` George G. Davis
2011-10-06 5:08 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore preemption/task migration cache coherency fixups gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-06 5:08 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: pgd_alloc is not preempt safe gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-06 16:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-06 19:38 ` George G. Davis
2011-10-06 5:08 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: pte_alloc_one{, _kernel} are " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-06 5:08 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: {clean, flush}_pmd_entry " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-06 5:08 ` [RFC/PATCH 4/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: clean_dcache_area is " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-06 5:08 ` [RFC/PATCH 5/7] ARM: Move get_thread_info macro definition to <asm/assembler.h> gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-06 5:08 ` [RFC/PATCH 6/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: DMA_CACHE_RWFO operations are not preempt safe gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-06 16:40 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-06 19:41 ` George G. Davis
2011-10-06 5:08 ` [RFC/PATCH 7/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: cpu_v6_set_pte_ext is " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-06 7:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-06 12:35 ` George G. Davis
2011-10-07 2:38 ` [RFC/PATCH v2 0/7] ARM11 MPCore: preemption/task migration cache coherency fixups gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-07 2:38 ` [RFC/PATCH 1/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: pgd_alloc is not preempt safe gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-07 2:38 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: pte_alloc_one{, _kernel} are " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-07 7:47 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: pte_alloc_one{,_kernel} " Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-07 15:31 ` [RFC/PATCH 2/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: pte_alloc_one{, _kernel} " George G. Davis
2011-10-07 2:38 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: {clean, flush}_pmd_entry " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-11 9:53 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: {clean,flush}_pmd_entry " Catalin Marinas
2011-10-12 2:34 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: {clean, flush}_pmd_entry " George G. Davis
2011-10-13 14:31 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: {clean,flush}_pmd_entry " Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-14 1:34 ` [RFC/PATCH 3/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: {clean, flush}_pmd_entry " George G. Davis
2011-10-07 2:38 ` [RFC/PATCH 4/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: clean_dcache_area is " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-07 2:38 ` [RFC/PATCH 5/7] ARM: Move get_thread_info macro definition to <asm/assembler.h> gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-11 9:56 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-10-12 6:04 ` gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-13 14:34 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-13 14:49 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-10-13 14:53 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-14 1:46 ` George G. Davis
2011-10-14 1:44 ` George G. Davis
2011-10-14 1:42 ` George G. Davis
2011-10-14 2:54 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-10-14 12:56 ` George G. Davis
2011-10-07 2:38 ` [RFC/PATCH 6/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: DMA_CACHE_RWFO operations are not preempt safe gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-07 2:38 ` [RFC/PATCH 7/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: cpu_v6_set_pte_ext is " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-07 16:26 ` [RFC/PATCH v3 0/7] ARM11 MPCore: preemption/task migration cache coherency fixups gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-07 16:26 ` [RFC/PATCH v3 1/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: pgd_alloc is not preempt safe gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-07 16:26 ` [RFC/PATCH v3 2/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: pte_alloc_one{, _kernel} are " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-07 16:26 ` [RFC/PATCH v3 3/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: {clean, flush}_pmd_entry " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-07 16:26 ` [RFC/PATCH v3 4/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: clean_dcache_area is " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-07 16:26 ` [RFC/PATCH v3 5/7] ARM: Move get_thread_info macro definition to <asm/assembler.h> gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-07 16:26 ` [RFC/PATCH v3 6/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: DMA_CACHE_RWFO operations are not preempt safe gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-07 16:26 ` [RFC/PATCH v3 7/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: cpu_v6_set_pte_ext is " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-18 13:47 ` [RFC/PATCH v4 0/7] ARM11 MPCore: preemption/task migration cache coherency fixups gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-18 13:47 ` [RFC/PATCH v4 1/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: pgd_alloc is not preempt safe gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-18 13:47 ` [RFC/PATCH v4 2/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: pte_alloc_one{, _kernel} are " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-18 13:47 ` [RFC/PATCH v4 3/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: {clean, flush}_pmd_entry " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-18 13:47 ` [RFC/PATCH v4 4/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: clean_dcache_area is " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-18 17:08 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-10-18 17:30 ` George G. Davis
2011-10-18 17:43 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-10-18 18:13 ` George G. Davis
2011-10-18 13:47 ` [RFC/PATCH v4 5/7] ARM: Move get_thread_info macro definition to <asm/assembler.h> gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-18 13:47 ` [RFC/PATCH v4 6/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: DMA_CACHE_RWFO operations are not preempt safe gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-18 21:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-10-18 23:26 ` George G. Davis
2011-10-19 1:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-10-18 13:47 ` [RFC/PATCH v4 7/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: cpu_v6_set_pte_ext is " gdavis at mvista.com
2011-10-18 21:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-10-18 23:29 ` George G. Davis
2012-06-12 20:40 ` [RFC/PATCH v5 0/7] ARM11 MPCore: preemption/task migration cache coherency fixups gdavis at mvista.com
2012-06-12 20:40 ` [RFC/PATCH v5 1/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: Make pgd_alloc preempt safe gdavis at mvista.com
2012-06-12 20:40 ` [RFC/PATCH v5 2/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: Make pte_alloc_one{, _kernel} " gdavis at mvista.com
2012-06-12 20:40 ` [RFC/PATCH v5 3/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: Make {clean, flush}_pmd_entry " gdavis at mvista.com
2012-06-12 20:40 ` [RFC/PATCH v5 4/7] ARM: Move get_thread_info macro definition to <asm/assembler.h> gdavis at mvista.com
2012-06-12 20:40 ` [RFC/PATCH v5 5/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: cpu_v6_dcache_clean_area needs RFO gdavis at mvista.com
2012-06-13 9:32 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-06-13 9:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-06-13 9:41 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-06-13 9:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-06-13 9:54 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-06-13 11:36 ` George G. Davis
2012-06-13 11:21 ` George G. Davis
2012-06-12 20:40 ` [RFC/PATCH v5 6/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: Make DMA_CACHE_RWFO operations preempt safe gdavis at mvista.com
2012-06-12 20:40 ` [RFC/PATCH v5 7/7] ARM: ARM11 MPCore: Make cpu_v6_set_pte_ext " gdavis at mvista.com
2012-06-13 9:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-06-13 11:35 ` George G. Davis
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