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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@wdc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] RISC-V: Issue a tlb page flush if possible
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:11:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190822081153.GC17573@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190822075151.24838-4-atish.patra@wdc.com>

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:51:51AM -0700, Atish Patra wrote:
> If tlbflush request is for page only, there is no need to do a
> complete local tlb shootdown.
> 
> Just do a local tlb flush for the given address.

Looks good, although I suspect in many cases even doing multiple
single-page sfence.vma calls might be cheaper than the global one.

But I think that is worth a ѕeparate discussion, preferably with actual
numbers.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-22  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-22  7:51 [PATCH v4 0/3] Optimize tlbflush path Atish Patra
2019-08-22  7:51 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] RISC-V: Do not invoke SBI call if cpumask is empty Atish Patra
2019-08-22  8:10   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-22  7:51 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] RISC-V: Issue a local tlbflush if possible Atish Patra
2019-08-22  8:10   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-22  7:51 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] RISC-V: Issue a tlb page flush " Atish Patra
2019-08-22  8:11   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-08-22 18:31     ` Atish Patra
2019-08-31  2:50 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Optimize tlbflush path Paul Walmsley
2019-09-28  4:23   ` Atish Patra
2019-10-25  3:09   ` Paul Walmsley
2019-10-31 15:13     ` Atish Patra

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