linux-kernel - Re: [patch]x86: spread tlb flush vector between nodes

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Date:	Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:39:55 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [patch]x86: spread tlb flush vector between nodes

On 10/19/2010 06:13 PM, Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 21:34 +0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>>  
>>> +static int tlb_vector_offset[NR_CPUS] __read_mostly;
>>
>> Never use NR_CPUS. Always use per cpu data.
>>
>> Otherwise you waste a lot of space on a CONFIG_MAX_SMP
>> kernel running on a smaller box.
> ha, I want it to be __read_mostly to avoid cache pollution, apparently
> we have no per cpu API to do this. Maybe I need add one.
> 

Quite possible, however, definitely percpu over a static array.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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