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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190613064813.8102-9-namit@vmware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/12/19 11:48 PM, Nadav Amit wrote: > cpu_tlbstate is mostly private and only the variable is_lazy is shared. > This causes some false-sharing when TLB flushes are performed. Presumably, all CPUs doing TLB flushes read 'is_lazy'. Because of this, when we write to it we have to do the cache coherency dance to get rid of all the CPUs that might have a read-only copy. I would have *thought* that we only do writes when we enter or exist lazy mode. That's partially true. We do write in enter_lazy_tlb(), but we also *unconditionally* write in switch_mm_irqs_off(). That seems like it might be responsible for a chunk (or even a vast majority) of the cacheline bounces. Is there anything preventing us from turning the switch_mm_irqs_off() write into: if (was_lazy) this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.is_lazy, false); ? I think this patch is probably still a good general idea, but I just wonder if reducing the writes is a better way to reduce bounces.