Doing the INIT/SIPI/SIPI in parallel for all APs and *then* waiting for them shaves about 80% off the AP bringup time on a 96-thread 2-socket Skylake box (EC2 c5.metal) — from about 500ms to 100ms. There are more wins to be had with further parallelisation, but this is the simple part. v2: Cut it back to just INIT/SIPI/SIPI in parallel for now, nothing more v3: Clean up x2apic patch, add MTRR optimisation, lock topology update in preparation for more parallelisation. v4: Fixes to the real mode parallelisation patch spotted by SeanC, to avoid scribbling on initial_gs in common_cpu_up(), and to allow all 24 bits of the physical X2APIC ID to be used. That patch still needs a Signed-off-by from its original author, who once claimed not to remember writing it at all. But now we've fixed it, hopefully he'll admit it now :) David Woodhouse (8): x86/apic/x2apic: Fix parallel handling of cluster_mask cpu/hotplug: Move idle_thread_get() to <linux/smpboot.h> cpu/hotplug: Add dynamic parallel bringup states before CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU x86/smpboot: Reference count on smpboot_setup_warm_reset_vector() x86/smpboot: Split up native_cpu_up into separate phases and document them x86/smpboot: Send INIT/SIPI/SIPI to secondary CPUs in parallel x86/mtrr: Avoid repeated save of MTRRs on boot-time CPU bringup x86/smpboot: Serialize topology updates for secondary bringup Thomas Gleixner (1): x86/smpboot: Support parallel startup of secondary CPUs [dwoodhou@i7 linux-2.6]$ git diff --stat v5.17-rc2..share/parallel-5.17-part1 arch/x86/include/asm/realmode.h | 3 + arch/x86/include/asm/smp.h | 13 +- arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h | 2 - arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_cluster.c | 108 ++++++----- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 6 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.c | 9 + arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 73 ++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 325 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- arch/x86/realmode/init.c | 3 + arch/x86/realmode/rm/trampoline_64.S | 14 ++ arch/x86/xen/smp_pv.c | 4 +- include/linux/cpuhotplug.h | 2 + include/linux/smpboot.h | 7 + kernel/cpu.c | 27 ++- kernel/smpboot.c | 2 +- kernel/smpboot.h | 2 - 18 files changed, 442 insertions(+), 161 deletions(-)