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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 46 |
2 files changed, 43 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index 3af64646f343..e3490ecac839 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -747,13 +747,13 @@ config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT depends on SPARSEMEM depends on !NEED_PER_CPU_KM depends on 64BIT + select PADATA help Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up - a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel - by starting one-off "pgdatinitX" kernel thread for each node X. This - has a potential performance impact on processes running early in the + a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel. + This has a potential performance impact on tasks running early in the lifetime of the system until these kthreads finish the initialisation. diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 89bd57241e08..27ec5dc4db33 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ #include <linux/lockdep.h> #include <linux/nmi.h> #include <linux/psi.h> +#include <linux/padata.h> #include <asm/sections.h> #include <asm/tlbflush.h> @@ -1815,6 +1816,26 @@ deferred_init_maxorder(u64 *i, struct zone *zone, unsigned long *start_pfn, return nr_pages; } +static void __init +deferred_init_memmap_chunk(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn, + void *arg) +{ + unsigned long spfn, epfn; + struct zone *zone = arg; + u64 i; + + deferred_init_mem_pfn_range_in_zone(&i, zone, &spfn, &epfn, start_pfn); + + /* + * Initialize and free pages in MAX_ORDER sized increments so that we + * can avoid introducing any issues with the buddy allocator. + */ + while (spfn < end_pfn) { + deferred_init_maxorder(&i, zone, &spfn, &epfn); + cond_resched(); + } +} + /* Initialise remaining memory on a node */ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data) { @@ -1824,7 +1845,7 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data) unsigned long first_init_pfn, flags; unsigned long start = jiffies; struct zone *zone; - int zid; + int zid, max_threads; u64 i; /* Bind memory initialisation thread to a local node if possible */ @@ -1864,13 +1885,26 @@ static int __init deferred_init_memmap(void *data) goto zone_empty; /* - * Initialize and free pages in MAX_ORDER sized increments so - * that we can avoid introducing any issues with the buddy - * allocator. + * More CPUs always led to greater speedups on tested systems, up to + * all the nodes' CPUs. Use all since the system is otherwise idle now. */ + max_threads = max(cpumask_weight(cpumask), 1u); + while (spfn < epfn) { - deferred_init_maxorder(&i, zone, &spfn, &epfn); - cond_resched(); + unsigned long epfn_align = ALIGN(epfn, PAGES_PER_SECTION); + struct padata_mt_job job = { + .thread_fn = deferred_init_memmap_chunk, + .fn_arg = zone, + .start = spfn, + .size = epfn_align - spfn, + .align = PAGES_PER_SECTION, + .min_chunk = PAGES_PER_SECTION, + .max_threads = max_threads, + }; + + padata_do_multithreaded(&job); + deferred_init_mem_pfn_range_in_zone(&i, zone, &spfn, &epfn, + epfn_align); } zone_empty: /* Sanity check that the next zone really is unpopulated */ |