x86: voluntary leave_mm before entering ACPI C3

Aviod TLB flush IPIs during C3 states by voluntary leave_mm() before entering C3. The performance impact of TLB flush on C3 should not be significant with respect to C3 wakeup latency. Also, CPUs tend to flush TLB in hardware while in C3 anyways. On a 8 logical CPU system, running make -j2, the number of tlbflush IPIs goes down from 40 per second to ~ 0. Total number of interrupts during the run of this workload was ~1200 per second, which makes it ~3% savings in wakeups. There was no measurable performance or power impact however. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: symbol export fixes. ] Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
git-mirror · Jan 30, 2008 · bde6f5f · bde6f5f
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smp_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smp_32.c
@@ -256,13 +256,14 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(tlbstate_lock);
  * We need to reload %cr3 since the page tables may be going
  * away from under us..
  */
-void leave_mm(unsigned long cpu)
+void leave_mm(int cpu)
 {
 	if (per_cpu(cpu_tlbstate, cpu).state == TLBSTATE_OK)
 		BUG();
 	cpu_clear(cpu, per_cpu(cpu_tlbstate, cpu).active_mm->cpu_vm_mask);
 	load_cr3(swapper_pg_dir);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(leave_mm);
 
 /*
  *

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smp_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smp_64.c
@@ -69,13 +69,14 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(union smp_flush_state, flush_state);
  * We cannot call mmdrop() because we are in interrupt context,
  * instead update mm->cpu_vm_mask.
  */
-static inline void leave_mm(int cpu)
+void leave_mm(int cpu)
 {
 	if (read_pda(mmu_state) == TLBSTATE_OK)
 		BUG();
 	cpu_clear(cpu, read_pda(active_mm)->cpu_vm_mask);
 	load_cr3(swapper_pg_dir);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(leave_mm);
 
 /*
  *

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
@@ -534,6 +534,7 @@ static void acpi_processor_idle(void)
 		break;
 
 	case ACPI_STATE_C3:
+		acpi_unlazy_tlb(smp_processor_id());
 		/*
 		 * Must be done before busmaster disable as we might
 		 * need to access HPET !
@@ -1423,6 +1424,7 @@ static int acpi_idle_enter_simple(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	acpi_unlazy_tlb(smp_processor_id());
 	/*
 	 * Must be done before busmaster disable as we might need to
 	 * access HPET !

diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/acpi.h b/include/asm-ia64/acpi.h
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ extern int __devinitdata pxm_to_nid_map[MAX_PXM_DOMAINS];
 extern int __initdata nid_to_pxm_map[MAX_NUMNODES];
 #endif
 
+#define acpi_unlazy_tlb(x)
+
 #endif /*__KERNEL__*/
 
 #endif /*_ASM_ACPI_H*/
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/acpi.h b/include/asm-x86/acpi.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/numa.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
+#include <asm/mmu.h>
 
 #define COMPILER_DEPENDENT_INT64   long long
 #define COMPILER_DEPENDENT_UINT64  unsigned long long
@@ -167,4 +168,6 @@ static inline void acpi_fake_nodes(const struct bootnode *fake_nodes,
 }
 #endif
 
+#define acpi_unlazy_tlb(x)	leave_mm(x)
+
 #endif /*__X86_ASM_ACPI_H*/
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/mmu.h b/include/asm-x86/mmu.h
@@ -20,4 +20,12 @@ typedef struct {
 	void *vdso;
 } mm_context_t;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+void leave_mm(int cpu);
+#else
+static inline void leave_mm(int cpu)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_MMU_H */
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/mmu_context_32.h b/include/asm-x86/mmu_context_32.h
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ static inline void enter_lazy_tlb(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *tsk)
 #endif
 }
 
-void leave_mm(unsigned long cpu);
-
 static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev,
 			     struct mm_struct *next,
 			     struct task_struct *tsk)