[PATCH v3 4/4] arm64: support batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation

Barry Song 21cnbao at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 20:39:38 PDT 2022


On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 3:00 PM Anshuman Khandual
<anshuman.khandual at arm.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 8/22/22 13:51, Yicong Yang wrote:
> > +static inline bool arch_tlbbatch_should_defer(struct mm_struct *mm)
> > +{
> > +     return true;
> > +}
>
> This needs to be conditional on systems, where there will be performance
> improvements, and should not just be enabled all the time on all systems.
> num_online_cpus() > X, which does not hold any cpu hotplug lock would be
> a good metric ?

for a small system, i don't see how this patch will help, e.g. cpus <= 4;
so we can actually disable tlb-batch on small systems.
just need to check if we will have any race condition since hotplug will
make the condition true and false dynamically.

Thanks
Barry



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