From 2046b94e7c4fce92eb8165c2c36c6478f4927178 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fenghua Yu Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:05:59 -0700 Subject: [IA64] Multiple outstanding ptc.g instruction support According to SDM2.2, Itanium supports multiple outstanding ptc.g instructions. But current kernel function ia64_global_tlb_purge() uses a spinlock to serialize ptc.g instructions issued by multiple processors. This serialization might have scalability issue on a big SMP machine where many processors could purge TLB in parallel. The patch fixes this problem by issuing multiple ptc.g instructions in ia64_global_tlb_purge(). It also adds support for the "PALO" table to get a platform view of the max number of outstanding ptc.g instructions (which may be different from the processor view found from PAL_VM_SUMMARY). PALO specification can be found at: http://www.dig64.org/home/DIG64_PALO_R1_0.pdf spinaphore implementation by Matthew Wilcox. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu Signed-off-by: Tony Luck --- include/asm-ia64/tlbflush.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/asm-ia64/tlbflush.h') diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/tlbflush.h b/include/asm-ia64/tlbflush.h index 7774a1cac0c..3be25dfed16 100644 --- a/include/asm-ia64/tlbflush.h +++ b/include/asm-ia64/tlbflush.h @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ * Now for some TLB flushing routines. This is the kind of stuff that * can be very expensive, so try to avoid them whenever possible. */ +extern void setup_ptcg_sem(int max_purges, int from_palo); /* * Flush everything (kernel mapping may also have changed due to -- cgit v1.2.3