linux/arch/x86/mm
Mel Gorman 5b74283ab2 x86, mm: trace when an IPI is about to be sent
When unmapping pages it is necessary to flush the TLB.  If that page was
accessed by another CPU then an IPI is used to flush the remote CPU.  That
is a lot of IPIs if kswapd is scanning and unmapping >100K pages per
second.

There already is a window between when a page is unmapped and when it is
TLB flushed.  This series increases the window so multiple pages can be
flushed using a single IPI.  This should be safe or the kernel is hosed
already.

Patch 1 simply made the rest of the series easier to write as ftrace
        could identify all the senders of TLB flush IPIS.

Patch 2 tracks what CPUs potentially map a PFN and then sends an IPI
        to flush the entire TLB.

Patch 3 tracks when there potentially are writable TLB entries that
        need to be batched differently

Patch 4 increases SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX to further batch flushes

The performance impact is documented in the changelogs but in the optimistic
case on a 4-socket machine the full series reduces interrupts from 900K
interrupts/second to 60K interrupts/second.

This patch (of 4):

It is easy to trace when an IPI is received to flush a TLB but harder to
detect what event sent it.  This patch makes it easy to identify the
source of IPIs being transmitted for TLB flushes on x86.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
..
kmemcheck x86: Replace __get_cpu_var uses 2014-08-26 13:45:49 -04:00
amdtopology.c x86/mm/numa: Simplify some bit mangling 2013-04-10 19:06:26 +02:00
dump_pagetables.c Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-12-10 13:59:34 -08:00
extable.c x86, extable: Switch to relative exception table entries 2012-04-20 17:22:34 -07:00
fault.c x86/vm86: Clean up vm86.h includes 2015-07-31 13:31:10 +02:00
gup.c mm: convert p[te|md]_numa users to p[te|md]_protnone_numa 2015-02-12 18:54:08 -08:00
highmem_32.c sched/preempt, mm/kmap: Explicitly disable/enable preemption in kmap_atomic_* 2015-05-19 08:39:14 +02:00
hugetlbpage.c mm/hugetlb: pmd_huge() returns true for non-present hugepage 2015-02-11 17:06:01 -08:00
init_32.c Linux 4.2-rc8 2015-08-25 09:59:19 +02:00
init_64.c x86/mm: Use early_param_on_off() for direct_gbpages 2015-03-05 08:02:12 +01:00
init.c x86/mm/pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables 2015-08-20 21:26:12 +02:00
iomap_32.c Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-06-22 17:59:09 -07:00
ioremap.c x86/mm: Fix newly introduced printk format warnings 2015-07-24 16:35:33 +02:00
kasan_init_64.c x86/kasan, mm: Introduce generic kasan_populate_zero_shadow() 2015-08-22 14:54:55 +02:00
kmmio.c x86: Delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h> 2014-01-06 21:25:18 -08:00
Makefile mm: move memtest under mm 2015-04-14 16:49:06 -07:00
mm_internal.h x86: Enable PAT to use cache mode translation tables 2014-11-16 11:04:26 +01:00
mmap.c x86/mpx: Do not set ->vm_ops on MPX VMAs 2015-07-21 07:57:16 +02:00
mmio-mod.c x86: delete __cpuinit usage from all x86 files 2013-07-14 19:36:56 -04:00
mpx.c x86/mpx: Do not set ->vm_ops on MPX VMAs 2015-07-21 07:57:16 +02:00
numa_32.c x86: Fix the initialization of physnode_map 2014-02-01 22:15:51 -08:00
numa_64.c x86, mm: kill numa_free_all_bootmem() 2012-11-17 11:59:47 -08:00
numa_emulation.c x86: delete __cpuinit usage from all x86 files 2013-07-14 19:36:56 -04:00
numa_internal.h x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code 2013-01-31 14:12:30 -08:00
numa.c x86/mm/numa: Fix kernel stack corruption in numa_init()->numa_clear_kernel_node_hotplug() 2015-04-07 16:01:19 +02:00
pageattr-test.c x86/mm/pat: Make mm/pageattr[-test].c explicitly non-modular 2015-08-25 09:48:38 +02:00
pageattr.c x86/mm/pat: Make mm/pageattr[-test].c explicitly non-modular 2015-08-25 09:48:38 +02:00
pat_internal.h x86/mm/pat: Convert to pr_*() usage 2015-05-27 14:40:59 +02:00
pat_rbtree.c x86/mm/pat: Convert to pr_*() usage 2015-05-27 14:40:59 +02:00
pat.c x86/mm/pat: Extend set_page_memtype() to support Write-Through type 2015-06-07 15:28:59 +02:00
pf_in.c
pf_in.h
pgtable_32.c x86: Remove set_pmd_pfn 2014-09-01 10:15:31 +02:00
pgtable.c x86/mm/mtrr: Enhance MTRR checks in kernel mapping helpers 2015-05-27 14:40:58 +02:00
physaddr.c x86, mm: Make DEBUG_VIRTUAL work earlier in boot 2013-01-25 16:33:22 -08:00
physaddr.h
setup_nx.c x86: delete __cpuinit usage from all x86 files 2013-07-14 19:36:56 -04:00
srat.c x86/mm: Avoid duplicated pxm_to_node() calls 2014-02-09 15:32:31 +01:00
testmmiotrace.c
tlb.c x86, mm: trace when an IPI is about to be sent 2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00