linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2]x86: spread tlb flush vector between nodes

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Message-ID: <1287564262.8722.2.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:44:22 +0800
From:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2]x86: spread tlb flush vector between nodes

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 15:30 +0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Hi Shaohua,
> 
> > +	if (nr_online_nodes > NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS)
> > +		nr_node_vecs = 1;
> > +	else
> > +		nr_node_vecs = NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS/nr_online_nodes;
> 
> Does this build without CONFIG_NUMA? AFAIK nr_online_nodes is only
> defined for a numa kernel.
yes it's ok without CONFIG_NUMA

> > +
> > +static int tlb_cpuhp_notify(struct notifier_block *n,
> > +		unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
> > +{
> > +	switch (action & 0xf) {
> > +	case CPU_ONLINE:
> > +	case CPU_DEAD:
> > +		calculate_tlb_offset();
> 
> I still think the notifier is overkill and a static mapping at boot time
> would be fine.
this hasn't much overhead, so please keep it. I'm afraid static mapping
calculation for hotplug cpu will introduce more complex.

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