x86/tlb: replace INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR by CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR

There are 32 INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR now in kernel. That is quite big
amount of vector in IDT. But it is still not enough, since modern x86
sever has more cpu number. That still causes heavy lock contention
in TLB flushing.

The patch using generic smp call function to replace it. That saved 32
vector number in IDT, and resolved the lock contention in TLB
flushing on large system.

In the NHM EX machine 4P * 8cores * HT = 64 CPUs, hackbench pthread
has 3% performance increase.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-9-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h
index 0baa628e330c..40afa0005c69 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/entry_arch.h
@@ -15,15 +15,6 @@ BUILD_INTERRUPT(call_function_interrupt,CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR)
 BUILD_INTERRUPT(call_function_single_interrupt,CALL_FUNCTION_SINGLE_VECTOR)
 BUILD_INTERRUPT(irq_move_cleanup_interrupt,IRQ_MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR)
 BUILD_INTERRUPT(reboot_interrupt,REBOOT_VECTOR)
-
-.irp idx,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15, \
-        16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31
-.if NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS > \idx
-BUILD_INTERRUPT3(invalidate_interrupt\idx,
-                 (INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_START)+\idx,
-                 smp_invalidate_interrupt)
-.endif
-.endr
 #endif
 
 BUILD_INTERRUPT(x86_platform_ipi, X86_PLATFORM_IPI_VECTOR)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
index 4b4448761e88..1508e518c7e3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
@@ -119,17 +119,6 @@
  */
 #define LOCAL_TIMER_VECTOR              0xef
 
-/* up to 32 vectors used for spreading out TLB flushes: */
-#if NR_CPUS <= 32
-# define NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS     (NR_CPUS)
-#else
-# define NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS     (32)
-#endif
-
-#define INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_END       (0xee)
-#define INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_START     \
-        (INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_END-NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS+1)
-
 #define NR_VECTORS                       256
 
 #define FPU_IRQ                           13