[PATCH v7 5/5] powerpc/64s: enable MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN

[Nicholas Piggin]

On a 16-socket 192-core POWER8 system, the context_switch1_threads
benchmark from will-it-scale (see earlier changelog), upstream can
achieve a rate of about 1 million context switches per second, due to
contention on the mm refcount.

64s meets the prerequisites for CONFIG_MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN, so enable
the option. This increases the above benchmark to 118 million context
switches per second.

This generates 314 additional IPI interrupts on a 144 CPU system doing
a kernel compile, which is in the noise in terms of kernel cycles.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index b8c4ac56bddc..600ace5a7f1a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -265,6 +265,7 @@ config PPC
 	select MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
 	select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
 	select MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS
+	select MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN		if PPC_BOOK3S_64
 	select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
 	select NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE		if PPC64 || NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
 	select NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK	if PPC64
-- 
2.37.2