Michael Ellerman writes:
> On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 20:21 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> upatepp get called for a nohpte fault, when we find from the linux
>> page table that the translation was hashed before. In that case
>> we are sure that there is no existing translation, hence we could
>> av
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 20:21 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_native_64.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_native_64.c
>> @@ -283,11 +283,11 @@ static long native_hpte_remove(unsigned long
>> hpte_group)
>>
>> static long native_hpte_up
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 20:21 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> upatepp get called for a nohpte fault, when we find from the linux
>> page table that the translation was hashed before. In that case
>> we are sure that there is no existing translation, hence we could
On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 20:21 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> upatepp get called for a nohpte fault, when we find from the linux
> page table that the translation was hashed before. In that case
> we are sure that there is no existing translation, hence we could
> avoid doing tlbie.
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On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 20:21 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> upatepp get called for a nohpte fault, when we find from the linux
> page table that the translation was hashed before. In that case
> we are sure that there is no existing translation, hence we could
> avoid doing tlbie.
We are sure the
On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 20:21 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_native_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hash_native_64.c
> @@ -283,11 +283,11 @@ static long native_hpte_remove(unsigned long hpte_group)
>
> static long native_hpte_updatepp(unsigned long slot, unsigned long new
upatepp get called for a nohpte fault, when we find from the linux
page table that the translation was hashed before. In that case
we are sure that there is no existing translation, hence we could
avoid doing tlbie.
Performance number:
We use randbox_access_bench written by Anton.
Kernel with THP
