On extreme TLB shootdown storms, the mm's tlb_gen cacheline is highly
contended and reading it should (arguably) be avoided as much as
possible.
Currently, flush_tlb_func() reads the mm's tlb_gen unconditionally,
even when it is not necessary (e.g., the mm was already switched).
This is wasteful.
Moreover, one of the existing optimizations is to read mm's tlb_gen to
see if there are additional in-flight TLB invalidations and flush the
entire TLB in such a case. However, if the request's tlb_gen was already
flushed, the benefit of checking the mm's tlb_gen is likely to be offset
by the overhead of the check itself.
Running will-it-scale with tlb_flush1_threads show a considerable
benefit on 56-core Skylake (up to +24%):
threads Baseline (v5.17+) +Patch
1 159960 160202
5 310808 308378 (-0.7%)
10 479110 490728
15 526771 562528
20 534495 587316
25 547462 628296
30 579616 666313
35 594134 701814
40 612288 732967
45 617517 749727
50 637476 735497
55 614363 778913 (+24%)
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220606180123.2485171-1-namit@vmware.com
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