In the case of x2apic cluster mode we can group IPI register
writes based on the cluster group instead of individual per-cpu
destination messages.
This reduces the apic register writes and reduces the amount of
IPI messages (in the best case we can reduce it by a factor of
16).
With this change, the cost of flush_tlb_others(), with the flush
tlb IPI being sent from a cpu in the socket-1 to all the logical
cpus in socket-2 (on a Westmere-EX system that has 20 logical
cpus in a socket) is 3x times better now (compared to the former
'send one-by-one' algorithm).
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: steiner@sgi.com
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110519234637.512271057@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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