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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix•de>,
	mingo@elte•hu, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: reduce scheduling latency by changing tlb flush size
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 16:40:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705141640.02561.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yyitzuf9857.wl@toshiba.co.jp>

On Monday 14 May 2007, Tsutomu OWA wrote:
> --- linux-2.6.21-rt1/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02007-04=
=2D26 12:08:32.000000000 +0900
> +++ rt/include/asm-powerpc/tlbflush.h=A0=A0=A02007-05-14 16:12:47.0000000=
00 +0900
> @@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ struct mm_struct;
> =A0#include <linux/percpu.h>
> =A0#include <asm/page.h>
> =A0
> +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_CELLEB) && defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT)
> +/* Since tlb flush takes long time on Celleb, reduce it to 1 when Celleb=
 && RT */
> +#define PPC64_TLB_BATCH_NR 1
> +#else
> =A0#define PPC64_TLB_BATCH_NR 192
> +#endif /* defined(CONFIG_PPC_CELLEB) && defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) */

With this code, you get silent side-effects of enabling PPC_CELLEB
along with another platform.

Maybe instead you should change the hpte_need_flush() to always flush
when running on the celleb platform and PREEMPT_RT is enabled.

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-14 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-14  6:22 [patch 0/4] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: fix build a breakage and some minor issues Tsutomu OWA
2007-05-14  6:26 ` [patch 1/4] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: fix a build breakage by adding __raw_*_relax() macros Tsutomu OWA
2007-05-14  6:28 ` [patch 2/4] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: convert spinlocks to raw ones for Celleb Tsutomu OWA
2007-05-14  6:29 ` [patch 3/4] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: add a need_resched_delayed() check Tsutomu OWA
2007-05-14  6:30 ` [patch 0/4] powerpc 2.6.21-rt1: reduce scheduling latency by changing tlb flush size Tsutomu OWA
2007-05-14  6:38   ` [patch 4/4] " Tsutomu OWA
2007-05-14  6:51     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-05-14  7:28       ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-05-14 14:40         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2007-05-15  4:12           ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-05-15  7:34             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-15  6:27           ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-05-15  7:38             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-15  8:08               ` Tsutomu OWA
2007-05-15  8:40                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-15  7:23           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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