linux-kernel - Re: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c needs an update for Haswell?

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Date:	Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:47:24 +0800
From:	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@...el.com>
CC:	Ilari Stenroth <ilari.stenroth@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c needs an update for Haswell?

On 08/01/2013 05:07 PM, Alex Shi wrote:
> From 6fb21a9ce475cfc6c7c39bdfd3d9422be24cdb74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:28:42 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86/tlb_flushall_shift: add Ivybridge EP CPU support
> 
> Tested with munmap.c on Ivybridge EP 2S machine, the best shift value is
> 2, that means when the tlb flush entries less than 64, single invlpg has
> performance benefit on this machine.
> The testcase come from: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/17/59
> Results show it has about 5% to 30% performance increase.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
> ---

Any comments are appreciated!

-- 
Thanks
    Alex
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