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Message-ID: <20171009180810.zkcugzxicgpsegh3@pd.tnic>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 20:08:10 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>,
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@...enkhaos.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/mm: Flush more aggressively in lazy TLB mode
On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 10:50:34AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> The choices are somewhat lazy and not lazy at all.
Yeah, you probably should explain those choices somewhere and what
exactly they mean.
> The degree of simplification I would get by removing it is basically
> nil. The debugfs code itself goes away, and a
> static_branch_unlikely() turns into a static_cpu_has(), and that's it.
Sure. But it is one variable less which is not really needed by the
widest audience.
> The real reason I added it is because Chris Mason volunteered to
> benchmark it, and I'll send it to him once it survives a bit of
> review.
Sure but it still doesn't need to be upstream. You can do all the
measurements with a patch ontop. You don't need the permanent knob in
debugfs either. After a year, no one would really need that anymore,
since the majority will be PCID machines.
> This is non-lazy. It's roughtly what our state was in old kernels
> when we went lazy and then called leave_mm().
non-lazy when we went lazy?!
Now I'm confused :)
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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