On 08/03/16 14:55, Li Zhang wrote:
> From: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Uptream has supported page parallel initialisation for X86 and the
> boot time is improved greately. Some tests have been done for Power.
>
> Here is the result I have done with different memory size.
>
> * 4GB memory:
> boot time is as the following:
> with patch vs without patch: 10.4s vs 24.5s
> boot time is improved 57%
> * 200GB memory:
> boot time looks the same with and without patches.
> boot time is about 38s
> * 32TB memory:
> boot time looks the same with and without patches
> boot time is about 160s.
> The boot time is much shorter than X86 with 24TB memory.
> From community discussion, it costs about 694s for X86 24T system.
>
> From code view, parallel initialisation improve the performance by
> deferring memory initilisation to kswap with N kthreads, it should
> improve the performance therotically.
>
> From the test result, On X86, performance is improved greatly with huge
> memory. But on Power platform, it is improved greatly with less than
> 100GB memory. For huge memory, it is not improved greatly. But it saves
> the time with several threads at least, as the following information
> shows(32TB system log):
>
> [ 22.648169] node 9 initialised, 16607461 pages in 280ms
> [ 22.783772] node 3 initialised, 23937243 pages in 410ms
> [ 22.858877] node 6 initialised, 29179347 pages in 490ms
> [ 22.863252] node 2 initialised, 29179347 pages in 490ms
> [ 22.907545] node 0 initialised, 32049614 pages in 540ms
> [ 22.920891] node 15 initialised, 32212280 pages in 550ms
> [ 22.923236] node 4 initialised, 32306127 pages in 550ms
> [ 22.923384] node 12 initialised, 32314319 pages in 550ms
> [ 22.924754] node 8 initialised, 32314319 pages in 550ms
> [ 22.940780] node 13 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms
> [ 22.940796] node 11 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms
> [ 22.941700] node 5 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms
> [ 22.941721] node 10 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms
> [ 22.941876] node 7 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms
> [ 22.944946] node 14 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms
> [ 22.946063] node 1 initialised, 33345485 pages in 580ms
>
> It saves the time about 550*16 ms at least, although it can be ignore to compare
> the boot time about 160 seconds. What's more, the boot time is much shorter
> on Power even without patches than x86 for huge memory machine.
>
> So this patchset is still necessary to be enabled for Power.
>
>
The patchset looks good, two questions
1. The patchset is still necessary for
a. systems with smaller amount of RAM?
b. Theoretically it improves boot time?
2. the pgdat->node_spanned_pages >> 8 sounds arbitrary
On a system with 2TB*16 nodes, it would initialize about 8GB before calling deferred init?
Don't we need at-least 32GB + space for other early hash allocations
BTW, My expectation was that 32TB would imply 32GB+32GB of large hash allocations early on
Balbir Singh.
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