kernel-ark/arch
de Dinechin, Christophe (Integrity VM) aec103bfa6 [IA64] Avoid unnecessary TLB flushes when allocating memory
Improve performance of memory allocations on ia64 by avoiding a global TLB
purge to purge a single page from the file cache. This happens whenever we
evict a page from the buffer cache to make room for some other allocation.

Test case: Run 'find /usr -type f | xargs cat > /dev/null' in the
background to fill the buffer cache, then run something that uses memory,
e.g. 'gmake -j50 install'. Instrumentation showed that the number of
global TLB purges went from a few millions down to about 170 over a 12
hours run of the above.

The performance impact is particularly noticeable under virtualization,
because a virtual TLB is generally both larger and slower to purge than
a physical one.

Signed-off-by: Christophe de Dinechin <ddd@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-12-18 16:56:50 -08:00
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alpha alpha: build fixes 2007-12-17 19:28:16 -08:00
arm [ARM] 4694/1: IXP4xx: Update clockevent support for shutdown and resume 2007-12-17 17:18:01 +00:00
avr32 [AVR32] Fix wrong pt_regs in critical exception handler 2007-12-07 14:54:48 +01:00
blackfin
cris
frv
h8300
ia64 [IA64] Avoid unnecessary TLB flushes when allocating memory 2007-12-18 16:56:50 -08:00
m32r
m68k
m68knommu
mips [MIPS] Ensure that ST0_FR is never set on a 32 bit kernel 2007-12-14 17:34:30 +00:00
parisc
powerpc Merge branch 'for-2.6.24' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc into merge 2007-12-14 16:46:50 +11:00
ppc [POWERPC] virtex bug fix: Use canonical value for AC97 interrupt xparams 2007-12-07 11:43:55 +11:00
s390
sh
sh64
sparc
sparc64 [SPARC64]: Fix two kernel linear mapping setup bugs. 2007-12-13 06:13:38 -08:00
um uml: stop gdb from deleting breakpoints when running UML 2007-12-17 19:28:15 -08:00
v850
x86 revert "Hibernation: Use temporary page tables for kernel text mapping on x86_64" 2007-12-17 19:28:15 -08:00
xtensa [XTENSA]: Fix use of skb after netif_rx 2007-12-11 02:45:28 -08:00