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authorAlex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>2012-06-28 05:02:23 +0400
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2012-06-28 06:29:13 +0400
commit52aec3308db85f4e9f5c8b9f5dc4fbd0138c6fa4 (patch)
tree75ad5a9e508fcbbc041d0fe4f1245c98e08af38c /arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
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/asm/irq_vectors.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h11
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
index 4b4448761e88..1508e518c7e3 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