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powerpc: Fix hypervisor TLB batching

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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>
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Anton Blanchard
2009-10-11 21:47:34 +00:00
committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent 8d8997f34e
commit b6dcde5c74
2 changed files with 6 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -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