1. 20 3月, 2006 4 次提交
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      [SPARC64]: Dynamically grow TSB in response to RSS growth. · bd40791e
      David S. Miller 提交于
      As the RSS grows, grow the TSB in order to reduce the likelyhood
      of hash collisions and thus poor hit rates in the TSB.
      
      This definitely needs some serious tuning.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      bd40791e
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      [SPARC64]: Add infrastructure for dynamic TSB sizing. · 98c5584c
      David S. Miller 提交于
      This also cleans up tsb_context_switch().  The assembler
      routine is now __tsb_context_switch() and the former is
      an inline function that picks out the bits from the mm_struct
      and passes it into the assembler code as arguments.
      
      setup_tsb_parms() computes the locked TLB entry to map the
      TSB.  Later when we support using the physical address quad
      load instructions of Cheetah+ and later, we'll simply use
      the physical address for the TSB register value and set
      the map virtual and PTE both to zero.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      98c5584c
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      [SPARC64]: TSB refinements. · 09f94287
      David S. Miller 提交于
      Move {init_new,destroy}_context() out of line.
      
      Do not put huge pages into the TSB, only base page size translations.
      There are some clever things we could do here, but for now let's be
      correct instead of fancy.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      09f94287
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      [SPARC64]: Move away from virtual page tables, part 1. · 74bf4312
      David S. Miller 提交于
      We now use the TSB hardware assist features of the UltraSPARC
      MMUs.
      
      SMP is currently knowingly broken, we need to find another place
      to store the per-cpu base pointers.  We hid them away in the TSB
      base register, and that obviously will not work any more :-)
      
      Another known broken case is non-8KB base page size.
      
      Also noticed that flush_tlb_all() is not referenced anywhere, only
      the internal __flush_tlb_all() (local cpu only) is used by the
      sparc64 port, so we can get rid of flush_tlb_all().
      
      The kernel gets it's own 8KB TSB (swapper_tsb) and each address space
      gets it's own private 8K TSB.  Later we can add code to dynamically
      increase the size of per-process TSB as the RSS grows.  An 8KB TSB is
      good enough for up to about a 4MB RSS, after which the TSB starts to
      incur many capacity and conflict misses.
      
      We even accumulate OBP translations into the kernel TSB.
      
      Another area for refinement is large page size support.  We could use
      a secondary address space TSB to handle those.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      74bf4312
  2. 13 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  3. 08 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [SPARC64] mm: context switch ptlock · dedeb002
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      sparc64 is unique among architectures in taking the page_table_lock in
      its context switch (well, cris does too, but erroneously, and it's not
      yet SMP anyway).
      
      This seems to be a private affair between switch_mm and activate_mm,
      using page_table_lock as a per-mm lock, without any relation to its uses
      elsewhere.  That's fine, but comment it as such; and unlock sooner in
      switch_mm, more like in activate_mm (preemption is disabled here).
      
      There is a block of "if (0)"ed code in smp_flush_tlb_pending which would
      have liked to rely on the page_table_lock, in switch_mm and elsewhere;
      but its comment explains how dup_mmap's flush_tlb_mm defeated it.  And
      though that could have been changed at any time over the past few years,
      now the chance vanishes as we push the page_table_lock downwards, and
      perhaps split it per page table page.  Just delete that block of code.
      
      Which leaves the mysterious spin_unlock_wait(&oldmm->page_table_lock)
      in kernel/fork.c copy_mm.  Textual analysis (supported by Nick Piggin)
      suggests that the comment was written by DaveM, and that it relates to
      the defeated approach in the sparc64 smp_flush_tlb_pending.  Just delete
      this block too.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      dedeb002
  4. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4