Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/mm: Only read faulting instruction when necessary in do_page_fault()

2017-05-02 Thread Christophe LEROY
Le 01/05/2017 à 05:00, Nicholas Piggin a écrit : On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 08:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Christophe Leroy wrote: Commit a7a9dcd882a67 ("powerpc: Avoid taking a data miss on every userspace instruction miss") has shown that limiting the read of faulting instruction to likely cases improves

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/mm: Only read faulting instruction when necessary in do_page_fault()

2017-04-30 Thread Nicholas Piggin
On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 08:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Christophe Leroy wrote: > Commit a7a9dcd882a67 ("powerpc: Avoid taking a data miss on every > userspace instruction miss") has shown that limiting the read of > faulting instruction to likely cases improves performance. > > This patch goes further into t

[PATCH v2] powerpc/mm: Only read faulting instruction when necessary in do_page_fault()

2017-04-27 Thread Christophe Leroy
Commit a7a9dcd882a67 ("powerpc: Avoid taking a data miss on every userspace instruction miss") has shown that limiting the read of faulting instruction to likely cases improves performance. This patch goes further into this direction by limiting the read of the faulting instruction to the only cas