Not every tlb_flush execution moment is really need to evacuate all
TLB entries, like in munmap, just few 'invlpg' is better for whole
process performance, since it leaves most of TLB entries for later
accessing.
This patch also rewrite flush_tlb_range for 2 purposes:
1, split it out to get flush_blt_mm_range function.
2, clean up to reduce line breaking, thanks for Borislav's input.
My micro benchmark 'mummap' http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/17/59
show that the random memory access on other CPU has 0~50% speed up
on a 2P * 4cores * HT NHM EP while do 'munmap'.
Thanks Yongjie's testing on this patch:
-------------
I used Linux 3.4-RC6 w/ and w/o his patches as Xen dom0 and guest
kernel.
After running two benchmarks in Xen HVM guest, I found his patches
brought about 1%~3% performance gain in 'kernel build' and 'netperf'
testing, though the performance gain was not very stable in 'kernel
build' testing.
Some detailed testing results are below.
Testing Environment:
Hardware: Romley-EP platform
Xen version: latest upstream
Linux kernel: 3.4-RC6
Guest vCPU number: 8
NIC: Intel 82599 (10GB bandwidth)
In 'kernel build' testing in guest:
Command line | performance gain
make -j 4 | 3.81%
make -j 8 | 0.37%
make -j 16 | -0.52%
In 'netperf' testing, we tested TCP_STREAM with default socket size
16384 byte as large packet and 64 byte as small packet.
I used several clients to add networking pressure, then 'netperf' server
automatically generated several threads to response them.
I also used large-size packet and small-size packet in the testing.
Packet size | Thread number | performance gain
16384 bytes | 4 | 0.02%
16384 bytes | 8 | 2.21%
16384 bytes | 16 | 2.04%
64 bytes | 4 | 1.07%
64 bytes | 8 | 3.31%
64 bytes | 16 | 0.71%
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-8-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Tested-by: Ren, Yongjie <yongjie.ren@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
kernel will replace cr3 rewrite with invlpg when
tlb_flush_entries <= active_tlb_entries / 2^tlb_flushall_factor
if tlb_flushall_factor is -1, kernel won't do this replacement.
User can modify its value according to specific CPU/applications.
Thanks for Borislav providing the help message of
CONFIG_DEBUG_TLBFLUSH.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-6-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Testing show different CPU type(micro architectures and NUMA mode) has
different balance points between the TLB flush all and multiple invlpg.
And there also has cases the tlb flush change has no any help.
This patch give a interface to let x86 vendor developers have a chance
to set different shift for different CPU type.
like some machine in my hands, balance points is 16 entries on
Romely-EP; while it is at 8 entries on Bloomfield NHM-EP; and is 256 on
IVB mobile CPU. but on model 15 core2 Xeon using invlpg has nothing
help.
For untested machine, do a conservative optimization, same as NHM CPU.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-5-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
We don't need to flush large pages by PAGE_SIZE step, that just waste
time. and actually, large page don't need 'invlpg' optimizing according
to our micro benchmark. So, just flush whole TLB is enough for them.
The following result is tested on a 2CPU * 4cores * 2HT NHM EP machine,
with THP 'always' setting.
Multi-thread testing, '-t' paramter is thread number:
without this patch with this patch
./mprotect -t 1 14ns 13ns
./mprotect -t 2 13ns 13ns
./mprotect -t 4 12ns 11ns
./mprotect -t 8 14ns 10ns
./mprotect -t 16 28ns 28ns
./mprotect -t 32 54ns 52ns
./mprotect -t 128 200ns 200ns
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-4-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
x86 has no flush_tlb_range support in instruction level. Currently the
flush_tlb_range just implemented by flushing all page table. That is not
the best solution for all scenarios. In fact, if we just use 'invlpg' to
flush few lines from TLB, we can get the performance gain from later
remain TLB lines accessing.
But the 'invlpg' instruction costs much of time. Its execution time can
compete with cr3 rewriting, and even a bit more on SNB CPU.
So, on a 512 4KB TLB entries CPU, the balance points is at:
(512 - X) * 100ns(assumed TLB refill cost) =
X(TLB flush entries) * 100ns(assumed invlpg cost)
Here, X is 256, that is 1/2 of 512 entries.
But with the mysterious CPU pre-fetcher and page miss handler Unit, the
assumed TLB refill cost is far lower then 100ns in sequential access. And
2 HT siblings in one core makes the memory access more faster if they are
accessing the same memory. So, in the patch, I just do the change when
the target entries is less than 1/16 of whole active tlb entries.
Actually, I have no data support for the percentage '1/16', so any
suggestions are welcomed.
As to hugetlb, guess due to smaller page table, and smaller active TLB
entries, I didn't see benefit via my benchmark, so no optimizing now.
My micro benchmark show in ideal scenarios, the performance improves 70
percent in reading. And in worst scenario, the reading/writing
performance is similar with unpatched 3.4-rc4 kernel.
Here is the reading data on my 2P * 4cores *HT NHM EP machine, with THP
'always':
multi thread testing, '-t' paramter is thread number:
with patch unpatched 3.4-rc4
./mprotect -t 1 14ns 24ns
./mprotect -t 2 13ns 22ns
./mprotect -t 4 12ns 19ns
./mprotect -t 8 14ns 16ns
./mprotect -t 16 28ns 26ns
./mprotect -t 32 54ns 51ns
./mprotect -t 128 200ns 199ns
Single process with sequencial flushing and memory accessing:
with patch unpatched 3.4-rc4
./mprotect 7ns 11ns
./mprotect -p 4096 -l 8 -n 10240
21ns 21ns
[ hpa: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1B4B44D9196EFF41AE41FDA404FC0A100BFF94@SHSMSX101.ccr.corp.intel.com
has additional performance numbers. ]
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-3-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree includes a micro-optimization that avoids cr3 switches
during idling; it fixes corner cases and there's also small cleanups"
Fix up trivial context conflict with the percpu_xx -> this_cpu_xx
changes.
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86-64: Fix accounting in kernel_physical_mapping_init()
x86/tlb: Clean up and unify TLB_FLUSH_ALL definition
x86: Drop obsolete ARCH_BOOTMEM support
x86, tlb: Switch cr3 in leave_mm() only when needed
x86/mm: Fix the size calculation of mapping tables
Since percpu_xxx() serial functions are duplicated with this_cpu_xxx().
Removing percpu_xxx() definition and replacing them by this_cpu_xxx()
in code. There is no function change in this patch, just preparation for
later percpu_xxx serial function removing.
On x86 machine the this_cpu_xxx() serial functions are same as
__this_cpu_xxx() without no unnecessary premmpt enable/disable.
Thanks for Stephen Rothwell, he found and fixed a i386 build error in
the patch.
Also thanks for Andrew Morton, he kept updating the patchset in Linus'
tree.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Currently leave_mm() unconditionally switches the cr3 to swapper_pg_dir.
But there is no need to change the cr3, if we already left that mm.
intel_idle() for example calls leave_mm() on every deep c-state entry where
the CPU flushes the TLB for us. Similarly flush_tlb_all() was also calling
leave_mm() whenever the TLB is in LAZY state. Both these paths will be
improved with this change.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332460885.16101.147.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
native_flush_tlb_others() is called from:
flush_tlb_current_task()
flush_tlb_mm()
flush_tlb_page()
All these functions disable preemption explicitly, so we can use
smp_processor_id() instead of get_cpu() and put_cpu().
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D7EC791.4040003@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This one isn't related to previous patch. If online cpus are
below NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS, we don't need the lock. The
comments in the code declares we don't need the check, but a hot
lock still needs an atomic operation and expensive, so add the
check here.
Uses nr_cpu_ids here as suggested by Eric Dumazet.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
LKML-Reference: <1295232730.1949.710.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Found a NUMA system that doesn't have RAM installed at the first
socket which hangs while executing init scripts.
bisected it to:
| commit 9329672021
| Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
| Date: Wed Oct 20 11:07:03 2010 +0800
|
| x86: Spread tlb flush vector between nodes
It turns out when first socket is not online it could have cpus on
node1 tlb_offset set to bigger than NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS.
That could affect systems like 4 sockets, but socket 2 doesn't
have installed, sockets 3 will get too big tlb_offset.
Need to use real online node idx.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4CDEDE59.40603@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mark tlb_cpuhp_notify as __cpuinit. It's basically a callback
function, which is called from __cpuinit init_smp_flash(). So -
it's safe.
We were warned by the following warning:
WARNING: arch/x86/mm/built-in.o(.text+0x356d): Section mismatch
in reference from the function tlb_cpuhp_notify() to the
function .cpuinit.text:calculate_tlb_offset()
The function tlb_cpuhp_notify() references
the function __cpuinit calculate_tlb_offset().
This is often because tlb_cpuhp_notify lacks a __cpuinit
annotation or the annotation of calculate_tlb_offset is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTinWQRG=HA9uB3ad0KAqRRTinL6L_4iKgF84coph@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently flush tlb vector allocation is based on below equation:
sender = smp_processor_id() % 8
This isn't optimal, CPUs from different node can have the same vector, this
causes a lot of lock contention. Instead, we can assign the same vectors to
CPUs from the same node, while different node has different vectors. This has
below advantages:
a. if there is lock contention, the lock contention is between CPUs from one
node. This should be much cheaper than the contention between nodes.
b. completely avoid lock contention between nodes. This especially benefits
kswapd, which is the biggest user of tlb flush, since kswapd sets its affinity
to specific node.
In my test, this could reduce > 20% CPU overhead in extreme case.The test
machine has 4 nodes and each node has 16 CPUs. I then bind each node's kswapd
to the first CPU of the node. I run a workload with 4 sequential mmap file
read thread. The files are empty sparse file. This workload will trigger a
lot of page reclaim and tlbflush. The kswapd bind is to easy trigger the
extreme tlb flush lock contention because otherwise kswapd keeps migrating
between CPUs of a node and I can't get stable result. Sure in real workload,
we can't always see so big tlb flush lock contention, but it's possible.
[ hpa: folded in fix from Eric Dumazet to use this_cpu_read() ]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287544023.4571.8.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
smp_processor_id() returns an int and not an unsigned long.
Also, since the function is small enough, there's no need for a
local variable caching its value.
No functionality change, just cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100721124705.GA674@aftab>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rather than having X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES and X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT
(with inconsistent defaults), just having the latter suffices as
the former can be easily calculated from it.
To be consistent, also change X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES to
X86_INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT, and set it to 7 (128 bytes) for NUMA
to account for last level cache line size (which here matters
more than L1 cache line size).
Finally, make sure the default value for X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT,
when X86_GENERIC is selected, is being seen before that for the
individual CPU model options (other than on x86-64, where
GENERIC_CPU is part of the choice construct, X86_GENERIC is a
separate option on ix86).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <4AFD5710020000780001F8F0@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Makes code futureproof against the impending change to mm->cpu_vm_mask (to be a pointer).
It's also a chance to use the new cpumask_ ops which take a pointer
(the older ones are deprecated, but there's no hurry for arch code).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
As noted in 83d349f35e ("x86: don't send
an IPI to the empty set of CPU's"), some APIC's will be very unhappy
with an empty destination mask. That commit added a WARN_ON() for that
case, and avoided the resulting problem, but didn't fix the underlying
reason for why those empty mask cases happened.
This fixes that, by checking the result of 'cpumask_andnot()' of the
current CPU actually has any other CPU's left in the set of CPU's to be
sent a TLB flush, and not calling down to the IPI code if the mask is
empty.
The reason this started happening at all is that we started passing just
the CPU mask pointers around in commit 4595f9620 ("x86: change
flush_tlb_others to take a const struct cpumask"), and when we did that,
the cpumask was no longer thread-local.
Before that commit, flush_tlb_mm() used to create it's own copy of
'mm->cpu_vm_mask' and pass that copy down to the low-level flush
routines after having tested that it was not empty. But after changing
it to just pass down the CPU mask pointer, the lower level TLB flush
routines would now get a pointer to that 'mm->cpu_vm_mask', and that
could still change - and become empty - after the test due to other
CPU's having flushed their own TLB's.
See
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13933
for details.
Tested-by: Thomas Björnell <thomas.bjornell@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: optimize APIC IPI related barriers
Uncached MMIO accesses for xapic are inherently serializing and hence
we don't need explicit barriers for xapic IPI paths.
x2apic MSR writes/reads don't have serializing semantics and hence need
a serializing instruction or mfence, to make all the previous memory
stores globally visisble before the x2apic msr write for IPI.
Add x2apic_wrmsr_fence() in flush tlb path to x2apic specific paths.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "steiner@sgi.com" <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <1237313814.27006.203.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Our send_IPI_*() methods and definitions are a twisted mess: the same
symbol is defined to different things depending on .config details,
in a non-transparent way.
- spread out the quirks into separately named per apic driver methods
- prefix the standard PC methods with default_
- get rid of wrapper macro obfuscation
- clean up various details
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Now that it's unified, move the (SMP) TLB flushing code from arch/x86/kernel/
to arch/x86/mm/, where it belongs logically.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
