Add struct page zeroing as a part of initialization of other fields in __init_single_page(). This single thread performance collected on: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8895 v3 @ 2.60GHz with 1T of memory (268400646 pages in 8 nodes): BASE FIX sparse_init 11.244671836s 0.007199623s zone_sizes_init 4.879775891s 8.355182299s -------------------------- Total 16.124447727s 8.362381922s sparse_init is where memory for struct pages is zeroed, and the zeroing part is moved later in this patch into __init_single_page(), which is called from zone_sizes_init(). Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mm.h | 9 +++++++++ mm/page_alloc.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index f8c10d336e42..50b74d628243 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -94,6 +94,15 @@ extern int mmap_rnd_compat_bits __read_mostly; #define mm_forbids_zeropage(X) (0) #endif +/* + * On some architectures it is expensive to call memset() for small sizes. + * Those architectures should provide their own implementation of "struct page" + * zeroing by defining this macro in <asm/pgtable.h>. + */ +#ifndef mm_zero_struct_page +#define mm_zero_struct_page(pp) ((void)memset((pp), 0, sizeof(struct page))) +#endif + /* * Default maximum number of active map areas, this limits the number of vmas * per mm struct. Users can overwrite this number by sysctl but there is a diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index a8dbd405ed94..4b630ee91430 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1170,6 +1170,7 @@ static void free_one_page(struct zone *zone, static void __meminit __init_single_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn, unsigned long zone, int nid) { + mm_zero_struct_page(page); set_page_links(page, zone, nid, pfn); init_page_count(page); page_mapcount_reset(page); -- 2.14.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>