x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift for specific CPU

Testing show different CPU type(micro architectures and NUMA mode) has
different balance points between the TLB flush all and multiple invlpg.
And there also has cases the tlb flush change has no any help.

This patch give a interface to let x86 vendor developers have a chance
to set different shift for different CPU type.

like some machine in my hands, balance points is 16 entries on
Romely-EP; while it is at 8 entries on Bloomfield NHM-EP; and is 256 on
IVB mobile CPU. but on model 15 core2 Xeon using invlpg has nothing
help.

For untested machine, do a conservative optimization, same as NHM CPU.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340845344-27557-5-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
index 39b2bd48dfbc..d048cad9bcad 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ extern u16 __read_mostly tlb_lli_4m[NR_INFO];
 extern u16 __read_mostly tlb_lld_4k[NR_INFO];
 extern u16 __read_mostly tlb_lld_2m[NR_INFO];
 extern u16 __read_mostly tlb_lld_4m[NR_INFO];
+extern s8  __read_mostly tlb_flushall_shift;
+
 /*
  *  CPU type and hardware bug flags. Kept separately for each CPU.
  *  Members of this structure are referenced in head.S, so think twice