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    x86, mm: trace when an IPI is about to be sent · 5b74283a
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    When unmapping pages it is necessary to flush the TLB.  If that page was
    accessed by another CPU then an IPI is used to flush the remote CPU.  That
    is a lot of IPIs if kswapd is scanning and unmapping >100K pages per
    second.
    
    There already is a window between when a page is unmapped and when it is
    TLB flushed.  This series increases the window so multiple pages can be
    flushed using a single IPI.  This should be safe or the kernel is hosed
    already.
    
    Patch 1 simply made the rest of the series easier to write as ftrace
            could identify all the senders of TLB flush IPIS.
    
    Patch 2 tracks what CPUs potentially map a PFN and then sends an IPI
            to flush the entire TLB.
    
    Patch 3 tracks when there potentially are writable TLB entries that
            need to be batched differently
    
    Patch 4 increases SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX to further batch flushes
    
    The performance impact is documented in the changelogs but in the optimistic
    case on a 4-socket machine the full series reduces interrupts from 900K
    interrupts/second to 60K interrupts/second.
    
    This patch (of 4):
    
    It is easy to trace when an IPI is received to flush a TLB but harder to
    detect what event sent it.  This patch makes it easy to identify the
    source of IPIs being transmitted for TLB flushes on x86.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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