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Rik van Riel authored
Song Liu noticed switch_mm_irqs_off() taking a lot of CPU time in recent kernels,using 1.8% of a 48 CPU system during a netperf to localhost run. Digging into the profile, we noticed that cpumask_clear_cpu and cpumask_set_cpu together take about half of the CPU time taken by switch_mm_irqs_off(). However, the CPUs running netperf end up switching back and forth between netperf and the idle task, which does not require changes to the mm_cpumask. Furthermore, the init_mm cpumask ends up being the most heavily contended one in the system. Simply skipping changes to mm_cpumask(&init_mm) reduces overhead. Reported-and-tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: efault@gmx.de Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: luto@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716190337.26133-8-riel@surriel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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