From fd329f276ecaad7a371d6f91b9bbea031d0c3440 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ricardo Neri Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 19:35:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86/mtrr: Skip cache flushes on CPUs with cache self-snooping Programming MTRR registers in multi-processor systems is a rather lengthy process. Furthermore, all processors must program these registers in lock step and with interrupts disabled; the process also involves flushing caches and TLBs twice. As a result, the process may take a considerable amount of time. On some platforms, this can lead to a large skew of the refined-jiffies clock source. Early when booting, if no other clock is available (e.g., booting with hpet=disabled), the refined-jiffies clock source is used to monitor the TSC clock source. If the skew of refined-jiffies is too large, Linux wrongly assumes that the TSC is unstable: clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU1: Marking clocksource 'tsc-early' as unstable because the skew is too large: clocksource: 'refined-jiffies' wd_now: fffedc10 wd_last: fffedb90 mask: ffffffff clocksource: 'tsc-early' cs_now: 5eccfddebc cs_last: 5e7e3303d4 mask: ffffffffffffffff tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to clocksource watchdog As per measurements, around 98% of the time needed by the procedure to program MTRRs in multi-processor systems is spent flushing caches with wbinvd(). As per the Section 11.11.8 of the Intel 64 and IA 32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, it is not necessary to flush caches if the CPU supports cache self-snooping. Thus, skipping the cache flushes can reduce by several tens of milliseconds the time needed to complete the programming of the MTRR registers: Platform Before After 104-core (208 Threads) Skylake 1437ms 28ms 2-core ( 4 Threads) Haswell 114ms 2ms Reported-by: Mohammad Etemadi Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Tony Luck Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Hans de Goede Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jordan Borgner Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" Cc: Ricardo Neri Cc: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Peter Feiner Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1561689337-19390-3-git-send-email-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c index 9356c1c9..aa5c064 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c @@ -743,7 +743,15 @@ static void prepare_set(void) __acquires(set_atomicity_lock) /* Enter the no-fill (CD=1, NW=0) cache mode and flush caches. */ cr0 = read_cr0() | X86_CR0_CD; write_cr0(cr0); - wbinvd(); + + /* + * Cache flushing is the most time-consuming step when programming + * the MTRRs. Fortunately, as per the Intel Software Development + * Manual, we can skip it if the processor supports cache self- + * snooping. + */ + if (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SELFSNOOP)) + wbinvd(); /* Save value of CR4 and clear Page Global Enable (bit 7) */ if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE)) { @@ -760,7 +768,10 @@ static void prepare_set(void) __acquires(set_atomicity_lock) /* Disable MTRRs, and set the default type to uncached */ mtrr_wrmsr(MSR_MTRRdefType, deftype_lo & ~0xcff, deftype_hi); - wbinvd(); + + /* Again, only flush caches if we have to. */ + if (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SELFSNOOP)) + wbinvd(); } static void post_set(void) __releases(set_atomicity_lock) -- 2.7.4