The following commit has been merged in the linux branch: commit b6dcde5c74d1cbf16da37202a14fa187dce6e4c0 Author: Anton Blanchard anton@samba.org Date: Sun Oct 11 21:47:34 2009 +0000

powerpc: Fix hypervisor TLB batching

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

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/firmware.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/firmware.h index 3a17982..20778a4 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/firmware.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/firmware.h @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ #define FW_FEATURE_VIO ASM_CONST(0x0000000000004000) #define FW_FEATURE_RDMA ASM_CONST(0x0000000000008000) #define FW_FEATURE_LLAN ASM_CONST(0x0000000000010000) -#define FW_FEATURE_BULK ASM_CONST(0x0000000000020000) +#define FW_FEATURE_BULK_REMOVE ASM_CONST(0x0000000000020000) #define FW_FEATURE_XDABR ASM_CONST(0x0000000000040000) #define FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE ASM_CONST(0x0000000000080000) #define FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR ASM_CONST(0x0000000000100000) @@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ #define FW_FEATURE_LPAR ASM_CONST(0x0000000000400000) #define FW_FEATURE_PS3_LV1 ASM_CONST(0x0000000000800000) #define FW_FEATURE_BEAT ASM_CONST(0x0000000001000000) -#define FW_FEATURE_BULK_REMOVE ASM_CONST(0x0000000002000000) -#define FW_FEATURE_CMO ASM_CONST(0x0000000004000000) +#define FW_FEATURE_CMO ASM_CONST(0x0000000002000000)

#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__

@@ -58,8 +57,9 @@ enum { FW_FEATURE_PERF | FW_FEATURE_DUMP | FW_FEATURE_INTERRUPT | FW_FEATURE_MIGRATE | FW_FEATURE_PERFMON | FW_FEATURE_CRQ | FW_FEATURE_VIO | FW_FEATURE_RDMA | FW_FEATURE_LLAN | - FW_FEATURE_BULK | FW_FEATURE_XDABR | FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE | - FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR | FW_FEATURE_LPAR | FW_FEATURE_CMO, + FW_FEATURE_BULK_REMOVE | FW_FEATURE_XDABR | + FW_FEATURE_MULTITCE | FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR | FW_FEATURE_LPAR | + FW_FEATURE_CMO, FW_FEATURE_PSERIES_ALWAYS = 0, FW_FEATURE_ISERIES_POSSIBLE = FW_FEATURE_ISERIES | FW_FEATURE_LPAR, FW_FEATURE_ISERIES_ALWAYS = FW_FEATURE_ISERIES | FW_FEATURE_LPAR, diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/firmware.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/firmware.c index 5a707da..0a14d8c 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/firmware.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/firmware.c @@ -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