x86/mm/tlb: Always use lazy TLB mode

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On most workloads, the number of context switches far exceeds the
number of TLB flushes sent. Optimizing the context switches, by always
using lazy TLB mode, speeds up those workloads.

This patch results in about a 1% reduction in CPU use on a two socket
Broadwell system running a memcache like workload.

Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: efault@gmx.de
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
(cherry picked from commit 95b0e6357d)
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716190337.26133-7-riel@surriel.com

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Rik van Riel 2018-09-25 23:58:38 -04:00 • committed by Peter Zijlstra

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arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h

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