[PATCH 0/2] powerpc/64s/radix: avoid unnecessary TLB flushes on fault

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Wed May 9 16:51:50 AEST 2018


These two patches make radix match hash and not flush the TLB after
fixing up faults unnecessarily.

There was some concern that accelerators need to have this flush, but
nothing is documented or commented, so it should just be removed. We
have a coprocessor count in the mm context now, and that can easily
be special cased if neccesary.

This and a few other changes reduce our broadcast tlbie rates by 10x
on a kernel compile benchmark, so it would be good to get it in.

Thanks,
Nick

Nicholas Piggin (2):
  powerpc/64s/radix: do not flush TLB when relaxing access
  powerpc/64s/radix: do not flush TLB on spurious fault

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/tlbflush.h | 7 +++++++
 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c            | 1 -
 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c                     | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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