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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Yair Podemsky <ypodemsk@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] send tlb_remove_table_smp_sync IPI only to necessary CPUs
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2023 09:43:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230621074337.GF2046280@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230620144618.125703-1-ypodemsk@redhat.com>

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 05:46:16PM +0300, Yair Podemsky wrote:
> Currently the tlb_remove_table_smp_sync IPI is sent to all CPUs
> indiscriminately, this causes unnecessary work and delays notable in
> real-time use-cases and isolated cpus.
> By limiting the IPI to only be sent to cpus referencing the effected
> mm.
> a config to differentiate architectures that support mm_cpumask from
> those that don't will allow safe usage of this feature.
> 
> changes from -v1:
> - Previous version included a patch to only send the IPI to CPU's with
> context_tracking in the kernel space, this was removed due to race 
> condition concerns.
> - for archs that do not maintain mm_cpumask the mask used should be
>  cpu_online_mask (Peter Zijlstra).
>  

Would it not be much better to fix the root cause? As per the last time,
there's patches that cure the thp abuse of this.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-21  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-20 14:46 Yair Podemsky
2023-06-20 14:46 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] arch: Introduce ARCH_HAS_CPUMASK_BITS Yair Podemsky
2023-06-20 14:46 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/mmu_gather: send tlb_remove_table_smp_sync IPI only to MM CPUs Yair Podemsky
2023-06-21 17:42   ` Dave Hansen
2023-06-22 13:14     ` ypodemsk
2023-06-22 13:37       ` Dave Hansen
2023-06-26 14:36         ` ypodemsk
2023-06-26 15:23           ` Dave Hansen
2023-06-21 18:02   ` Nadav Amit
2023-06-22 13:57     ` ypodemsk
2023-06-23  3:38     ` Yang Shi
2023-07-03 13:57   ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-06-21  7:43 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2023-06-22 12:47   ` [PATCH v2 0/2] send tlb_remove_table_smp_sync IPI only to necessary CPUs Marcelo Tosatti
2023-07-03 14:09     ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-06-22 13:11   ` ypodemsk

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