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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2015-09-04 15:47:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-04 16:54:41 -0700
commit5b74283ab251b9db55cbbe31d19ca72482103290 (patch)
tree730c6af6112fa25a96e3b15a7b235297d98a0b0a /arch
parentc47174fc362a089b1125174258e53ef4a69ce6b8 (diff)
x86, mm: trace when an IPI is about to be sent
When unmapping pages it is necessary to flush the TLB. If that page was accessed by another CPU then an IPI is used to flush the remote CPU. That is a lot of IPIs if kswapd is scanning and unmapping >100K pages per second. There already is a window between when a page is unmapped and when it is TLB flushed. This series increases the window so multiple pages can be flushed using a single IPI. This should be safe or the kernel is hosed already. Patch 1 simply made the rest of the series easier to write as ftrace could identify all the senders of TLB flush IPIS. Patch 2 tracks what CPUs potentially map a PFN and then sends an IPI to flush the entire TLB. Patch 3 tracks when there potentially are writable TLB entries that need to be batched differently Patch 4 increases SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX to further batch flushes The performance impact is documented in the changelogs but in the optimistic case on a 4-socket machine the full series reduces interrupts from 900K interrupts/second to 60K interrupts/second. This patch (of 4): It is easy to trace when an IPI is received to flush a TLB but harder to detect what event sent it. This patch makes it easy to identify the source of IPIs being transmitted for TLB flushes on x86. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/tlb.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index 90b924acd982..8ddb5d0d66fb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
info.flush_end = end;
count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_REMOTE_FLUSH);
+ trace_tlb_flush(TLB_REMOTE_SEND_IPI, end - start);
if (is_uv_system()) {
unsigned int cpu;