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authorAlex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>2012-06-28 01:02:23 (GMT)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2012-06-28 02:29:13 (GMT)
commit52aec3308db85f4e9f5c8b9f5dc4fbd0138c6fa4 (patch)
tree75ad5a9e508fcbbc041d0fe4f1245c98e08af38c /arch/x86/include
parent611ae8e3f5204f7480b3b405993b3352cfa16662 (diff)
downloadlinux-52aec3308db85f4e9f5c8b9f5dc4fbd0138c6fa4.tar.xz
x86/tlb: replace INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR by CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR
There are 32 INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR now in kernel. That is quite big amount of vector in IDT. But it is still not enough, since modern x86 sever has more cpu number. That still causes heavy lock contention in TLB flushing. The patch using generic smp call function to replace it. That saved 32 vector number in IDT, and resolved the lock contention in TLB flushing on large system. In the NHM EX machine 4P * 8cores * HT = 64 CPUs, hackbench pthread has 3% performance increase. Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-9-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h9
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h11
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h
index 0baa628..40afa00 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h
@@ -15,15 +15,6 @@ BUILD_INTERRUPT(call_function_interrupt,CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR)
BUILD_INTERRUPT(call_function_single_interrupt,CALL_FUNCTION_SINGLE_VECTOR)
BUILD_INTERRUPT(irq_move_cleanup_interrupt,IRQ_MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR)
BUILD_INTERRUPT(reboot_interrupt,REBOOT_VECTOR)
-
-.irp idx,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15, \
- 16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31
-.if NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS > \idx
-BUILD_INTERRUPT3(invalidate_interrupt\idx,
- (INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_START)+\idx,
- smp_invalidate_interrupt)
-.endif
-.endr
#endif
BUILD_INTERRUPT(x86_platform_ipi, X86_PLATFORM_IPI_VECTOR)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
index 4b44487..1508e51 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
@@ -119,17 +119,6 @@
*/
#define LOCAL_TIMER_VECTOR 0xef
-/* up to 32 vectors used for spreading out TLB flushes: */
-#if NR_CPUS <= 32
-# define NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS (NR_CPUS)
-#else
-# define NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS (32)
-#endif
-
-#define INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_END (0xee)
-#define INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_START \
- (INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_END-NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS+1)
-
#define NR_VECTORS 256
#define FPU_IRQ 13