On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 08:02:14PM -0700, Jia He wrote:
>Commit b92df1de5d28 ("mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns
>where possible") tried to optimize the loop in memmap_init_zone(). But
>there is still some room for improvement.
>
>Patch 1 remain the memblock_next_valid_pfn when CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID
> is enabled
>Patch 2 optimizes the memblock_next_valid_pfn()
>Patch 3~5 optimizes the early_pfn_valid(), I have to split it into parts
> because the changes are located across subsystems.
>
>I tested the pfn loop process in memmap_init(), the same as before.
>As for the performance improvement, after this set, I can see the time
>overhead of memmap_init() is reduced from 41313 us to 24345 us in my
>armv8a server(QDF2400 with 96G memory).
>
>Attached the memblock region information in my server.
>[ 86.956758] Zone ranges:
>[ 86.959452] DMA [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x00000000ffffffff]
>[ 86.966041] Normal [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x00000017ffffffff]
>[ 86.972631] Movable zone start for each node
>[ 86.977179] Early memory node ranges
>[ 86.980985] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x000000000021ffff]
>[ 86.987666] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000820000-0x000000000307ffff]
>[ 86.994348] node 0: [mem 0x0000000003080000-0x000000000308ffff]
>[ 87.001029] node 0: [mem 0x0000000003090000-0x00000000031fffff]
>[ 87.007710] node 0: [mem 0x0000000003200000-0x00000000033fffff]
>[ 87.014392] node 0: [mem 0x0000000003410000-0x000000000563ffff]
>[ 87.021073] node 0: [mem 0x0000000005640000-0x000000000567ffff]
>[ 87.027754] node 0: [mem 0x0000000005680000-0x00000000056dffff]
>[ 87.034435] node 0: [mem 0x00000000056e0000-0x00000000086fffff]
>[ 87.041117] node 0: [mem 0x0000000008700000-0x000000000871ffff]
>[ 87.047798] node 0: [mem 0x0000000008720000-0x000000000894ffff]
>[ 87.054479] node 0: [mem 0x0000000008950000-0x0000000008baffff]
>[ 87.061161] node 0: [mem 0x0000000008bb0000-0x0000000008bcffff]
>[ 87.067842] node 0: [mem 0x0000000008bd0000-0x0000000008c4ffff]
>[ 87.074524] node 0: [mem 0x0000000008c50000-0x0000000008e2ffff]
>[ 87.081205] node 0: [mem 0x0000000008e30000-0x0000000008e4ffff]
>[ 87.087886] node 0: [mem 0x0000000008e50000-0x0000000008fcffff]
>[ 87.094568] node 0: [mem 0x0000000008fd0000-0x000000000910ffff]
>[ 87.101249] node 0: [mem 0x0000000009110000-0x00000000092effff]
>[ 87.107930] node 0: [mem 0x00000000092f0000-0x000000000930ffff]
>[ 87.114612] node 0: [mem 0x0000000009310000-0x000000000963ffff]
>[ 87.121293] node 0: [mem 0x0000000009640000-0x000000000e61ffff]
>[ 87.127975] node 0: [mem 0x000000000e620000-0x000000000e64ffff]
>[ 87.134657] node 0: [mem 0x000000000e650000-0x000000000fffffff]
>[ 87.141338] node 0: [mem 0x0000000010800000-0x0000000017feffff]
>[ 87.148019] node 0: [mem 0x000000001c000000-0x000000001c00ffff]
>[ 87.154701] node 0: [mem 0x000000001c010000-0x000000001c7fffff]
>[ 87.161383] node 0: [mem 0x000000001c810000-0x000000007efbffff]
>[ 87.168064] node 0: [mem 0x000000007efc0000-0x000000007efdffff]
>[ 87.174746] node 0: [mem 0x000000007efe0000-0x000000007efeffff]
>[ 87.181427] node 0: [mem 0x000000007eff0000-0x000000007effffff]
>[ 87.188108] node 0: [mem 0x000000007f000000-0x00000017ffffffff]
Hi, Jia
I haven't taken a deep look into your code, just one curious question on your
memory layout.
The log above is printed out in free_area_init_nodes(), which iterates on
memblock.memory and prints them. If I am not wrong, memory regions added to
memblock.memory are ordered and merged if possible.
While from your log, I see many regions could be merged but are isolated. For
example, the last two region:
node 0: [mem 0x000000007eff0000-0x000000007effffff]
node 0: [mem 0x000000007f000000-0x00000017ffffffff]
So I am curious why they are isolated instead of combined to one.
>From the code, the possible reason is the region's flag differs from each
other. If you have time, would you mind taking a look into this?
--
Wei Yang
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