On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:25:13 +0530 Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed increased boot time when enabling highmem for ARC. Turns out that
> freeing highmem pages into buddy allocator is done page at a time, while it is
> batched for low mem pages. Below is call flow.
>
> I'm thinking of writing free_highmem_pages() which takes start and end pfn and
> want to solicit some ideas whether to write it from scratch or preferably call
> existing __free_pages_memory() to reuse the logic to convert a pfn range into
> {pfn, order} tuples.
>
> For latter however there are semantical differences as you can see below which I'm
> not sure of:
> -highmem page->count is set to 1, while 0 for low mem
That would be weird.
Look more closely at __free_pages_boot_core() - it uses
set_page_refcounted() to set the page's refcount to 1. Those
set_page_count() calls look superfluous to me.
> -atomic clearing of page reserved flag vs. non atomic
I doubt if the atomic is needed - who else can be looking at this page
at this time?
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