Commit 585fa724 authored by Ralf Baechle's avatar Ralf Baechle
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[MIPS] Retire flush_icache_page from mm use.

On the 34K the redundant cache operations were causing excessive stalls
resulting in realtime code running on the second VPE missing its deadline.
For all other platforms this patch is just a significant performance
improvment as illustrated by below benchmark numbers.

Processor, Processes - times in microseconds - smaller is better
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Host                 OS  Mhz null null      open slct sig  sig  fork exec sh
                             call  I/O stat clos TCP  inst hndl proc proc proc
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
25Kf      2.6.18-rc4     533 0.49 1.16 7.57 33.4 30.5 1.34 12.4 5497 17.K 54.K
25Kf      2.6.18-rc4-p   533 0.49 1.16 6.68 23.0 30.7 1.36 8.55 5030 16.K 48.K
4Kc       2.6.18-rc4      80 4.21 15.0 131. 289. 261. 16.5 258. 18.K 70.K 227K
4Kc       2.6.18-rc4-p    80 4.34 13.1 128. 285. 262. 18.2 258. 12.K 52.K 176K
34Kc     ...
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