linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm/tlb, x86/mm: Support invalidating TLB caches for RCU_TABLE

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Message-ID: <30def1abb307dc4a2d232e69717d6755a1369492.camel@kernel.crashing.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:13:45 +1000
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Adin Scannell <ascannell@...gle.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm/tlb, x86/mm: Support invalidating TLB caches for
 RCU_TABLE_FREE

On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 19:02 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > More tlbies ? With the cost of the broadasts on the fabric ? I don't
> > think so.. or I'm not understanding your point...
> 
> More tlbies are no good, but there will be some places where it works
> out much better (and fewer tlbies). Worst possible case for current code
> is a big unmap with lots of scattered page sizes. We _should_ get that
> with just a single PID flush at the end, but what we will get today is
> a bunch of PID and VA flushes.
> 
> I don't propose doing that though, I'd rather be explicit about
> tracking start and end range of each page size. Still not "optimal"
> but neither is existing single range for sparse mappings... anyway it
> will need to be profiled, but my point is we don't really fit exactly
> what x86/arm want.

If we have an arch specific part, we could just remember up to N
"large" pages there without actually flushing, and if that overflows,
upgrade to a full flush.

Cheers,
Ben.