Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86/hyperv: Exclude lazy TLB mode CPUs from enlightened TLB flushes

From: Wei Liu
Date: Wed Apr 12 2023 - 21:34:13 EST


On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 06:16:05AM -0700, Michael Kelley wrote:
> The Hyper-V enlightened TLB remote flush function does not exclude
> lazy TLB mode CPUs like the equivalent native function. Limited
> telemetry shows that up to 80% of the CPUs being flushed are in
> lazy mode, so flushing them is unnecessary and wasteful.
>
> The best place to exclude the lazy TLB mode CPUs is when copying
> the Linux cpumask to the Hyper-V VPset data structure, since the
> copying already processes CPUs one-by-one. Currently this copying
> function has the capabilty to exclude the calling CPU. Generalize
> this exclusion functionality to exclude CPUs based on a callback
> function that is invoked for each CPU. Then for TLB flushing,
> use this callback function to check the lazy TLB mode status of
> each targeted CPU.
>
> Patch 1 of this series does the generalization, and fixes up the
> one caller of the existing "exclude self" capability.
>
> Patch 2 then implements the exclusion based on lazy TLB mode,
> using the generalization from Patch 1.
>
> Michael Kelley (2):
> x86/hyperv: Add callback filter to cpumask_to_vpset()
> x86/hyperv: Exclude lazy TLB mode CPUs from enlightened TLB flushes
>
> arch/x86/hyperv/hv_apic.c | 12 ++++++++----
> arch/x86/hyperv/mmu.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> include/asm-generic/mshyperv.h | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
> 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Applied to hyperv-next. Thanks.

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