linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v3] x86,mm,sched: make lazy TLB mode even lazier

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Date:   Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:02:25 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        serebrin@...gle.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v3] x86,mm,sched: make lazy TLB mode even lazier

Yeah, with those small fixes from Ingo, I definitely don't think this
looks hacky at all. This all seems to be exactly what we should always
have done.

The only remaining comment is that I'd make that
lazy_tlb_can_skip_flush() function just use a switch table for the
tlbstate comparisons rather than the repeated conditionals.

I'd love to see the results from Benjamin - maybe it helps a lot, and
maybe it doesn't. But regardless, the patch makes sense to me.

So with the small fixups: Ack.

             Linus