Hi,
On Tue Apr 24, 2012 at 16:36:52 -0800, Chen Tian wrote:
I did a small test: a parent task first maps and then unmaps a page to its child. Both parent and child task are running on the same core.
I found the execution is very slow and 99% time are spent on l4_task_unmap( L4_FP_OTHER_SPACES flag is used).
After some investigation, I found the flag "need_xcpu_tlb_flush" in map_util.cpp:766 is set to true. My guess is that this flag controls the tlb of the cpu at which the child task is running. However, in my case, both tasks are running on the same core, setting this flag can have huge negative impact on performance.
I am thinking to put a check before this statement: if (current_cpu() != space's CPU) set the flag to true. Is this correct? If so, how to get space's cpu? space->cpu() ?
This is a valid optimization, however, only if it is made sure that no code of that task has ever run on any other core. A space has no CPU because a space does not execute anything.
Adam