linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/mm: Flush more aggressively in lazy TLB mode

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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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