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Add a new accessor for PTEs, which passes the full hint from the mmu_gather struct; this allows architectures with hardware pagetables to optimize away atomic PTE operations when destroying an address space. Removing the locked operation should allow better pipelining of memory access in this loop. I measured an average savings of 30-35 cycles per zap_pte_range on the first 500 destructions on Pentium-M, but I believe the optimization would win more on older processors which still assert the bus lock on xchg for an exclusive cacheline. Update: I made some new measurements, and this saves exactly 26 cycles over ptep_get_and_clear on Pentium M. On P4, with a PAE kernel, this saves 180 cycles per ptep_get_and_clear, for a whopping 92160 cycles savings for a full address space destruction. pte_clear_full is not yet used, but is provided for future optimizations (in particular, when running inside of a hypervisor that queues page table updates, the full hint allows us to avoid queueing unnecessary page table update for an address space in the process of being destroyed. This is not a huge win, but it does help a bit, and sets the stage for further hypervisor optimization of the mm layer on all architectures. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |
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| 4level-fixup.h | ||
| bitops.h | ||
| bug.h | ||
| cputime.h | ||
| div64.h | ||
| dma-mapping-broken.h | ||
| dma-mapping.h | ||
| emergency-restart.h | ||
| errno-base.h | ||
| errno.h | ||
| hdreg.h | ||
| ide_iops.h | ||
| iomap.h | ||
| ipc.h | ||
| local.h | ||
| page.h | ||
| pci-dma-compat.h | ||
| pci.h | ||
| percpu.h | ||
| pgtable-nopmd.h | ||
| pgtable-nopud.h | ||
| pgtable.h | ||
| resource.h | ||
| rtc.h | ||
| sections.h | ||
| siginfo.h | ||
| signal.h | ||
| statfs.h | ||
| termios.h | ||
| tlb.h | ||
| topology.h | ||
| uaccess.h | ||
| unaligned.h | ||
| vmlinux.lds.h | ||
| xor.h | ||