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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2009-10-11 21:47:34 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-10-14 16:58:37 +1100
commitb6dcde5c74d1cbf16da37202a14fa187dce6e4c0 (patch)
tree8d99ceec9f8473d171bea309614d0c08e9440db2 /arch
parent8d8997f34e66124577db52f6e7ee10ab5f869e07 (diff)
powerpc: Fix hypervisor TLB batching
Profiling of a page fault scalability microbenchmark shows flush_hash_range is not calling the batch hpte invalidate hcall (H_BULK_REMOVE). It turns out we have a duplicate firmware feature for hcall-bulk and the current setup code stops after finding the first match. This meant we never batch and always do individual invalidates. The patch below removes the duplicate and shifts FW_FEATURE_CMO to close the gap. With the patch applied the single threaded page fault rate improves from 217169 to 238755 per second on a POWER5 test box, a 10% improvement. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/include/asm/firmware.h10
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/firmware.c3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/firmware.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/firmware.h
index 3a179827528..20778a405d7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/firmware.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/firmware.h
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
#define FW_FEATURE_VIO ASM_CONST(0x0000000000004000)
#define FW_FEATURE_RDMA ASM_CONST(0x0000000000008000)
#define FW_FEATURE_LLAN ASM_CONST(0x0000000000010000)
-#define FW_FEATURE_BULK ASM_CONST(0x0000000000020000)
+#define FW_FEATURE_BULK_REMOVE ASM_CONST(0x0000000000020000)
#define FW_FEATURE_XDABR ASM_CONST(0x0000000000040000)
#define FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE ASM_CONST(0x0000000000080000)
#define FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR ASM_CONST(0x0000000000100000)
@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@
#define FW_FEATURE_LPAR ASM_CONST(0x0000000000400000)
#define FW_FEATURE_PS3_LV1 ASM_CONST(0x0000000000800000)
#define FW_FEATURE_BEAT ASM_CONST(0x0000000001000000)
-#define FW_FEATURE_BULK_REMOVE ASM_CONST(0x0000000002000000)
-#define FW_FEATURE_CMO ASM_CONST(0x0000000004000000)
+#define FW_FEATURE_CMO ASM_CONST(0x0000000002000000)
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
@@ -58,8 +57,9 @@ enum {
FW_FEATURE_PERF | FW_FEATURE_DUMP | FW_FEATURE_INTERRUPT |
FW_FEATURE_MIGRATE | FW_FEATURE_PERFMON | FW_FEATURE_CRQ |
FW_FEATURE_VIO | FW_FEATURE_RDMA | FW_FEATURE_LLAN |
- FW_FEATURE_BULK | FW_FEATURE_XDABR | FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE |
- FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR | FW_FEATURE_LPAR | FW_FEATURE_CMO,
+ FW_FEATURE_BULK_REMOVE | FW_FEATURE_XDABR |
+ FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE | FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR | FW_FEATURE_LPAR |
+ FW_FEATURE_CMO,
FW_FEATURE_PSERIES_ALWAYS = 0,
FW_FEATURE_ISERIES_POSSIBLE = FW_FEATURE_ISERIES | FW_FEATURE_LPAR,
FW_FEATURE_ISERIES_ALWAYS = FW_FEATURE_ISERIES | FW_FEATURE_LPAR,
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/firmware.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/firmware.c
index 5a707da3f5c..0a14d8cd314 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/firmware.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/firmware.c
@@ -51,11 +51,10 @@ firmware_features_table[FIRMWARE_MAX_FEATURES] = {
{FW_FEATURE_VIO, "hcall-vio"},
{FW_FEATURE_RDMA, "hcall-rdma"},
{FW_FEATURE_LLAN, "hcall-lLAN"},
- {FW_FEATURE_BULK, "hcall-bulk"},
+ {FW_FEATURE_BULK_REMOVE, "hcall-bulk"},
{FW_FEATURE_XDABR, "hcall-xdabr"},
{FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE, "hcall-multi-tce"},
{FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR, "hcall-splpar"},
- {FW_FEATURE_BULK_REMOVE, "hcall-bulk"},
};
/* Build up the firmware features bitmask using the contents of