It doesn't make much sense to use the atomic SetPageReserved at init time
when we are using memset to clear the memory and manipulating the page
flags via simple "&=" and "|=" operations in __init_single_page.
This patch adds a non-atomic version __SetPageReserved that can be used
during page init and shows about a 10% improvement in initialization times
on the systems I have available for testing. On those systems I saw
initialization times drop from around 35 seconds to around 32 seconds to
initialize a 3TB block of persistent memory. I believe the main advantage
of this is that it allows for more compiler optimization as the __set_bit
operation can be reordered whereas the atomic version cannot.
I tried adding a bit of documentation based on commit <f1dd2cd13c4> ("mm,
memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online").
Ideally the reserved flag should be set earlier since there is a brief
window where the page is initialization via __init_single_page and we have
not set the PG_Reserved flag. I'm leaving that for a future patch set as
that will require a more significant refactor.
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v4: Added comment about __set_bit vs set_bit to the patch description
v5: No change
include/linux/page-flags.h | 1 +
mm/page_alloc.c | 9 +++++++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 934f91ef3f54..50ce1bddaf56 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ static inline void page_init_poison(struct page *page, size_t size)
PAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
__CLEARPAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
+ __SETPAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
PAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_NO_TAIL)
__CLEARPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_NO_TAIL)
__SETPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_NO_TAIL)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 511447ac02cf..926ad3083b28 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1238,7 +1238,12 @@ void __meminit reserve_bootmem_region(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
/* Avoid false-positive PageTail() */
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
- SetPageReserved(page);
+ /*
+ * no need for atomic set_bit because the struct
+ * page is not visible yet so nobody should
+ * access it yet.
+ */
+ __SetPageReserved(page);
}
}
}
@@ -5512,7 +5517,7 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
__init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid);
if (context == MEMMAP_HOTPLUG)
- SetPageReserved(page);
+ __SetPageReserved(page);
/*
* Mark the block movable so that blocks are reserved for
