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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] powerpc/64s: enable MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 16:52:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210607165241.4dcd4cf63f96437c5650d179@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210605014216.446867-5-npiggin@gmail.com>

On Sat,  5 Jun 2021 11:42:16 +1000 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:

> On a 16-socket 192-core POWER8 system, a context switching benchmark
> with as many software threads as CPUs (so each switch will go in and
> out of idle), upstream can achieve a rate of about 1 million context
> switches per second. After this patch it goes up to 118 million.

Nice.  Do we have a feel for the benefit on any real-world workloads?

Could any other architectures benefit from these changes?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-07 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-05  1:42 [PATCH v4 0/4] shoot lazy tlbs Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-05  1:42 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] lazy tlb: introduce lazy mm refcount helper functions Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-07 23:49   ` Andrew Morton
2021-06-08  1:39     ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-08  1:48       ` Andrew Morton
2021-06-08  4:11         ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-05  1:42 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] lazy tlb: allow lazy tlb mm refcounting to be configurable Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-08  3:11   ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-08 16:20   ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-06-14  0:45     ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-14  3:52       ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-06-14  4:14         ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-14  4:47           ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-14  5:21             ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-14 16:20               ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-06-15  0:55                 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-16  0:14                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-06-16  1:02                     ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-17  0:32                       ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-05  1:42 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] lazy tlb: shoot lazies, a non-refcounting lazy tlb option Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-08  3:15   ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-05  1:42 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] powerpc/64s: enable MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-07 23:52   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2021-06-08  2:13     ` Nicholas Piggin

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