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SubjectRe: [v2 PATCH] RISC-V: Optimize tlb flush path.
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 08:42:19AM +0000, Atish Patra wrote:
> cmask NULL is pretty common case and we would be unnecessarily
> executing bunch of instructions everytime while not saving much. Kernel
> still have to make an SBI call and OpenSBI is doing a local flush
> anyways.
>
> Looking at the code again, I think we can just use cpumask_weight and
> do local tlb flush only if local cpu is the only cpu present.
>
> Otherwise, it will just fall through and call sbi_remote_sfence_vma().

Maybe it is just time to split the different cases at a higher level.
The idea to multiple everything onto a single function always seemed
odd to me.

FYI, here is what I do for the IPI based tlbflush for the native S-mode
clint prototype, which seems much easier to understand:

http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/riscv.git/commitdiff/ea4067ae61e20fcfcf46a6f6bd1cc25710ce3afe

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