[PATCH v4 4/4] powerpc/64s: enable MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Tue Jun 8 09:52:41 AEST 2021


On Sat,  5 Jun 2021 11:42:16 +1000 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at 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?


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