3.18.48-rt54-rc1 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: John Ogness Although wbinvd() is faster than flushing many individual pages, it blocks the memory bus for "long" periods of time (>100us), thus directly causing unusually large latencies on all CPUs, regardless of any CPU isolation features that may be active. For 1024 pages, flushing those pages individually can take up to 2200us, but the task remains fully preemptible during that time. Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: John Ogness Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index e5545f2105f6..3c4b0318a363 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -211,7 +211,15 @@ static void cpa_flush_array(unsigned long *start, int numpages, int cache, int in_flags, struct page **pages) { unsigned int i, level; +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT + /* + * Avoid wbinvd() because it causes latencies on all CPUs, + * regardless of any CPU isolation that may be in effect. + */ + unsigned long do_wbinvd = 0; +#else unsigned long do_wbinvd = cache && numpages >= 1024; /* 4M threshold */ +#endif BUG_ON(irqs_disabled()); -- 2.10.2