[PATCH] riscv: mm: Limit per-page TLB flushes for large PTE batches

hu.shengming at zte.com.cn hu.shengming at zte.com.cn
Wed Nov 11 19:05:25 PST 2026


From: Shengming Hu <hu.shengming at zte.com.cn>

On systems without Svvptc, update_mmu_cache_range() performs one local
TLB invalidation per PTE. With 4 KiB pages, installing a PTE-mapped
1 MiB anonymous folio requires 256 SFENCE.VMA instructions, or 256
SINVAL.VMA instructions bracketed by SFENCE.W.INVAL and
SFENCE.INVAL.IR.

Apply the existing local TLB range-flush policy to PTE batch updates.
When nr exceeds tlb_flush_all_threshold, use local_flush_tlb_all_asid()
to replace per-page invalidations with a single ASID-wide SFENCE.VMA.
This orders the PTE writes before subsequent implicit page-table
accesses and invalidates translations for the entire batch. As with
range flushes, this may also evict unrelated translations for the same
ASID.

Benchmark results from will-it-scale's page_fault1_processes under
QEMU 9.1.93 (qemu-9.2.0-0.3.rc3.fc40), with svvptc=false and
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y (higher is better):

Folio size      Before       After     Change
=============================================
4 KiB           116537      113503      -2.6%
512 KiB        1431962     1977519     +38.1%
1 MiB          1528457     2208209     +44.5%

Signed-off-by: Shengming Hu <hu.shengming at zte.com.cn>
---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 2ebd5fa5adc5..ebe42fcf35ae 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -571,6 +571,11 @@ static inline void update_mmu_cache_range(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 	if (riscv_has_extension_unlikely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVVPTC))
 		return;

+	if (nr > tlb_flush_all_threshold) {
+		local_flush_tlb_all_asid(asid);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	if (riscv_has_extension_unlikely(RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVINVAL)) {
 		local_sfence_w_inval();
 		while (nr--)
-- 
2.25.1



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