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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-04-16 14:27:24 +0300
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2018-05-15 15:29:12 +0300
commit675d995297d42f69484100516cd30a71d25f4c7c (patch)
tree02cc7214221142ad74b234dc41e4f536f4d3592c /arch/powerpc/platforms
parent738f9645550ea6887f119e44dc479821e44571bd (diff)
downloadlinux-675d995297d42f69484100516cd30a71d25f4c7c.tar.xz
powerpc/book3s64: Enable split pmd ptlock.
Testing with a threaded version of mmap_bench which allocate 1G chunks and with large number of threads we find: without patch 32.72% mmap_bench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] do_raw_spin_lock | ---do_raw_spin_lock | --32.68%--0 | |--15.82%--pte_fragment_alloc | | | --15.79%--do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page | __handle_mm_fault | handle_mm_fault | __do_page_fault | handle_page_fault | test_mmap | test_mmap | start_thread | __clone | |--14.95%--do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page | __handle_mm_fault | handle_mm_fault | __do_page_fault | handle_page_fault | test_mmap | test_mmap | start_thread | __clone | with patch 12.89% mmap_bench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] do_raw_spin_lock | ---do_raw_spin_lock | --12.83%--0 | |--3.21%--pagevec_lru_move_fn | __lru_cache_add | | | --2.74%--do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page | __handle_mm_fault | handle_mm_fault | __do_page_fault | handle_page_fault | test_mmap | test_mmap | start_thread | __clone | |--3.11%--do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page | __handle_mm_fault | handle_mm_fault | __do_page_fault | handle_page_fault | test_mmap | test_mmap | start_thread | __clone ..... | --0.55%--pte_fragment_alloc | --0.55%--do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page __handle_mm_fault handle_mm_fault __do_page_fault handle_page_fault test_mmap test_mmap start_thread __clone Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/platforms')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
index 67d3125d0610..cc892dcfa114 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -292,6 +292,10 @@ config PPC_STD_MMU_32
def_bool y
depends on PPC_STD_MMU && PPC32
+config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
+ def_bool y
+ depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64
+
config PPC_RADIX_MMU
bool "Radix MMU Support"
depends on PPC_BOOK3S_64