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Re: [PATCH v4] sparc64: Reduce TLB flushes during hugepte changes

Started byDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
First post2016-05-21 03:50 +0200
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  Re: [PATCH v4] sparc64: Reduce TLB flushes during hugepte changes David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-05-21 03:50 +0200

#1404786 — Re: [PATCH v4] sparc64: Reduce TLB flushes during hugepte changes

FromDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date2016-05-21 03:50 +0200
SubjectRe: [PATCH v4] sparc64: Reduce TLB flushes during hugepte changes
Message-ID<rB4db-5yY-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
From: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 11:17:13 -0700

> During hugepage map/unmap, TSB and TLB flushes are currently
> issued at every PAGE_SIZE'd boundary which is unnecessary.
> We now issue the flush at REAL_HPAGE_SIZE boundaries only.
> 
> Without this patch workloads which unmap a large hugepage
> backed VMA region get CPU lockups due to excessive TLB
> flush calls.
> 
> Orabug: 22365539, 22643230, 22995196
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com>

Looks good, applied and queued up for -stable.

Thanks for being so patient.

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