On a 16-socket 192-core POWER8 system, a context switching benchmark
with as many software threads as CPUs (so each switch will go in and
out of idle), upstream can achieve a rate of about 1 million context
switches per second. After this patch it goes up to 118 million.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 5181872f9452..356138bdb5bb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ config PPC
select HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP
select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
select MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE
+ select MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN if PPC_BOOK3S_64
select HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API
select HAVE_RELIABLE_STACKTRACE if PPC_BOOK3S_64 &&
CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
--
2.23.0
