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Date:   Mon, 28 Mar 2022 12:35:51 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm/tlb: avoid reading mm_tlb_gen when possible
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:07:57PM +0000, Nadav Amit wrote:
> From: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
> 
> On extreme TLB shootdown storms, the mm's tlb_gen cacheline is highly
> contended and reading it should (arguably) be avoided as much as
> possible.
> 
> Currently, flush_tlb_func() reads the mm's tlb_gen unconditionally,
> even when it is not necessary (e.g., the mm was already switched).
> This is wasteful.
> 
> Moreover, one of the existing optimizations is to read mm's tlb_gen to
> see if there are additional in-flight TLB invalidations and flush the
> entire TLB in such a case. However, if the request's tlb_gen was already
> flushed, the benefit of checking the mm's tlb_gen is likely to be offset
> by the overhead of the check itself.
> 
> Running will-it-scale with tlb_flush1_threads show a considerable
> benefit on 56-core Skylake (up to +24%):
> 
> threads		Baseline (v5.17+)	+Patch
> 1		159960			160202
> 5		310808			308378 (-0.7%)
> 10		479110			490728
> 15		526771			562528
> 20		534495			587316
> 25		547462			628296
> 30		579616			666313
> 35		594134			701814
> 40		612288			732967
> 45		617517			749727
> 50		637476			735497
> 55		614363			778913 (+24%)
> 

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>