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Andy Lutomirski authored
vmalloc() is a bit slow, and pounding vmalloc()/vfree() will eventually force a global TLB flush. To reduce pressure on them, if CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y, cache two thread stacks per CPU. This will let us quickly allocate a hopefully cache-hot, TLB-hot stack under heavy forking workloads (shell script style). On my silly pthread_create() benchmark, it saves about 2 µs per pthread_create()+join() with CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y. Signed-off-by:
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/94811d8e3994b2e962f88866290017d498eb069c.1474003868.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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