The x86 MM changes in this cycle were:
- Implement concurrent TLB flushes, which overlaps the local TLB flush with the
remote TLB flush. In testing this improved sysbench performance measurably by
a couple of percentage points, especially if TLB-heavy security mitigations
are active.
- Further micro-optimizations to improve the performance of TLB flushes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Merge branch 'locking/core' into x86/mm, to resolve conflict
There's a non-trivial conflict between the parallel TLB flush
framework and the IPI flush debugging code - merge them
manually.
Conflicts:
kernel/smp.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
