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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux•ibm.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail•com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack•org" <linux-mm@kvack•org>,
	"kaleshsingh@google•com" <kaleshsingh@google•com>,
	"joel@joelfernandes•org" <joel@joelfernandes•org>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov•name>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation•org" <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	"linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] Speedup mremap on ppc64
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 10:09:36 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3f2b7150-eaba-e1ab-bb88-53a3510727b9@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPa8GCAmgUyqqAcuLC7KxDvDepkqhhvVcwgSGJh92PT+LoMQcw@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/7/21 3:40 PM, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Monday, 7 June 2021, Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux•ibm.com> 
> wrote: This patchset enables MOVE_PMD/MOVE_PUD support on power. This 
> requires the platform to support updating higher-level page tables 
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> On Monday, 7 June 2021, Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux•ibm.com 
> <mailto:aneesh.kumar@linux•ibm.com>> wrote:
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> 
>     This patchset enables MOVE_PMD/MOVE_PUD support on power. This requires
>     the platform to support updating higher-level page tables without
>     updating page table entries. This also needs to invalidate the Page Walk
>     Cache on architecture supporting the same.
> 
>     Changes from v6:
>     * Update ppc64 flush_tlb_range to invalidate page walk cache.
> 
> 
> I'd really rather not do this, I'm not sure if micro bench mark captures 
> everything.
> 
> Page tables coming from L2/L3 probably aren't the primary purpose or 
> biggest benefit of intermediate level caches.
> 
> The situation on POWER with nest mmu (coherent accelerators) is 
> magnified. They have huge page walk cashes to make up for the fact they 
> don't have data caches for walking page tables which makes the 
> invalidation more painful in terms of subsequent misses, but also 
> latency to invalidate (can be order of microseconds whereas a page 
> invalidate is a couple of orders of magnitude faster).
> 

If we are using NestMMU, we already upgrade that flush to invalidate 
page walk cache right? ie, if we have > PMD_SIZE range, we would upgrade 
the invalidate to a pid flush via

flush_pid = nr_pages > tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling;
	
and if it is PID flush if we are using NestMMU we already upgrade a 
RIC_FLUSH_TLB to RIC_FLUSH_ALL ?

> Yes it is a deficiency of the ppc invalidation architecture, we are 
> aware and would like to improve it but for now those is what we have.
> 

-aneesh

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-08  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-07  5:51 [PATCH v7 00/11] Speedup mremap on ppc64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-07  5:51 ` [PATCH v7 01/11] mm/mremap: Fix race between MOVE_PMD mremap and pageout Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-08  0:06   ` Hugh Dickins
2021-06-08  7:52     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-08  9:42       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-06-08 11:17         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-08 12:05           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-06-08 20:39       ` Hugh Dickins
2021-06-07  5:51 ` [PATCH v7 02/11] mm/mremap: Fix race between MOVE_PUD " Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-14 14:55   ` [mm/mremap] ecf8443e51: vm-scalability.throughput -29.4% regression kernel test robot
2021-06-14 14:58     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-14 16:08     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-17  2:38       ` [LKP] " Liu, Yujie
2021-06-07  5:51 ` [PATCH v7 03/11] selftest/mremap_test: Update the test to handle pagesize other than 4K Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-07  5:51 ` [PATCH v7 04/11] selftest/mremap_test: Avoid crash with static build Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-07  5:51 ` [PATCH v7 05/11] mm/mremap: Convert huge PUD move to separate helper Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-07  5:51 ` [PATCH v7 06/11] mm/mremap: Don't enable optimized PUD move if page table levels is 2 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-07  5:51 ` [PATCH v7 07/11] mm/mremap: Use pmd/pud_poplulate to update page table entries Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-07  5:51 ` [PATCH v7 08/11] powerpc/mm/book3s64: Fix possible build error Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-07  5:51 ` [PATCH v7 09/11] mm/mremap: Allow arch runtime override Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-07  5:51 ` [PATCH v7 10/11] powerpc/book3s64/mm: Update flush_tlb_range to flush page walk cache Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-07  5:51 ` [PATCH v7 11/11] powerpc/mm: Enable HAVE_MOVE_PMD support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2021-06-07 10:10 ` [PATCH v7 00/11] Speedup mremap on ppc64 Nick Piggin
2021-06-08  4:39   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2021-06-08  5:03     ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-08 17:10   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-16  1:44     ` Nicholas Piggin

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