From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Adin Scannell <ascannell@google.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm/tlb, x86/mm: Support invalidating TLB caches for RCU_TABLE_FREE
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:09:50 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ef8a2aa44db971340b0bcc4f73d639455dd4282.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180827180458.4af9b2ac@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 18:04 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > Yes.. I see that. tlb_remove_check_page_size_change() really is a rather
> > ugly thing, it can cause loads of TLB flushes. Do you really _have_ to
> > do that? The way ARM and x86 work is that using INVLPG in a 4K stride is
> > still correct for huge pages, inefficient maybe, but so is flushing
> > every other page because 'sparse' transparant-huge-pages.
>
> It could do that. It requires a tlbie that matches the page size,
> so it means 3 sizes. I think possibly even that would be better
> than current code, but we could do better if we had a few specific
> fields in there.
More tlbies ? With the cost of the broadasts on the fabric ? I don't
think so.. or I'm not understanding your point...
Sadly our architecture requires a precise match between the page size
specified in the tlbie instruction and the entry in the TLB or it won't
be flushed.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-27 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-22 15:30 [PATCH 0/4] x86: TLB invalidate fixes Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-22 15:30 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86/mm/tlb: Revert the recent lazy TLB patches Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-22 21:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-22 22:11 ` Rik van Riel
2018-08-22 15:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm/tlb: Remove tlb_remove_table() non-concurrent condition Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-23 3:31 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-23 3:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-23 3:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-23 4:16 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-23 4:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-23 5:15 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-24 8:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-23 13:40 ` Will Deacon
2018-08-22 15:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm/tlb, x86/mm: Support invalidating TLB caches for RCU_TABLE_FREE Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-22 15:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-23 3:45 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-23 3:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-23 4:33 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-23 5:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-23 5:58 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-23 4:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-23 5:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-23 5:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-23 6:48 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-08-23 5:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-23 6:15 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-23 13:39 ` Will Deacon
2018-08-24 8:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-24 11:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-24 11:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-27 5:00 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-27 7:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-27 8:04 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-27 8:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2018-08-27 8:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-27 8:54 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-27 9:02 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-27 22:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2018-08-27 13:36 ` Rik van Riel
2018-08-27 14:29 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-27 8:57 ` removig ia64, was: " Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-27 11:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-27 11:45 ` Jason Duerstock
2018-08-27 11:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-30 0:13 ` Vineet Gupta
2018-08-30 10:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-24 17:26 ` Nadav Amit
2018-08-24 18:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-24 18:35 ` TLB flushes on fixmap changes Nadav Amit
2018-08-24 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-24 20:24 ` Nadav Amit
2018-08-25 0:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-25 2:29 ` nadav.amit
2018-08-25 4:23 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-26 2:23 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-08-26 4:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-26 4:43 ` Kees Cook
2018-08-26 5:53 ` Nadav Amit
2018-08-26 14:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-26 16:47 ` Kees Cook
2018-08-26 17:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-26 20:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-08-26 22:03 ` Kees Cook
2018-08-26 22:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-08-26 22:29 ` Jann Horn
2018-08-26 9:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-27 3:03 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-08-27 3:26 ` Nadav Amit
2018-08-27 8:05 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-08-27 17:34 ` Nadav Amit
2018-08-27 18:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-27 18:54 ` Nadav Amit
2018-08-27 18:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-27 19:10 ` Nadav Amit
2018-08-27 19:43 ` Nadav Amit
2018-08-27 19:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-27 20:16 ` Nadav Amit
2018-08-27 21:55 ` Nadav Amit
2018-08-27 22:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-27 22:54 ` Nadav Amit
2018-08-27 23:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-08-28 8:49 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-08-28 17:33 ` Nadav Amit
2018-08-27 8:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-27 9:39 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-08-27 9:55 ` Jann Horn
2018-08-26 22:48 ` Jann Horn
2018-08-24 8:35 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm/tlb, x86/mm: Support invalidating TLB caches for RCU_TABLE_FREE Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-24 13:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-24 13:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-24 15:49 ` Will Deacon
2018-08-23 23:31 ` Will Deacon
2018-08-22 21:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-23 8:46 ` Nicholas Piggin
2018-08-22 15:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86/mm: Only use tlb_remove_table() for paravirt Peter Zijlstra
2018-08-22 22:12 ` Eduardo Valentin
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