x86/mm: Eliminate redundant page table walk during TLB range flushing
When choosing between doing an address space or ranged flush, the x86 implementation of flush_tlb_mm_range takes into account whether there are any large pages in the range. A per-page flush typically requires fewer entries than would covered by a single large page and the check is redundant. There is one potential exception. THP migration flushes single THP entries and it conceivably would benefit from flushing a single entry instead of the mm. However, this flush is after a THP allocation, copy and page table update potentially with any other threads serialised behind it. In comparison to that, the flush is noise. It makes more sense to optimise balancing to require fewer flushes than to optimise the flush itself. This patch deletes the redundant huge page check. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-sgei1drpOcburujPsfh6ovmo@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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