Currently, slab_sysfs_init() is an __initcall aka device_initcall. It is rather time-consuming; on my board it takes around 11ms. That's about 1% of the time budget I have from U-Boot letting go and until linux must assume responsibility of keeping the external watchdog happy. There's no particular reason this would need to run at device_initcall time, so instead make it a late_initcall to allow vital functionality to get started a bit sooner. This actually ends up winning more than just those 11ms, because the slab caches that get created during other device_initcalls (and before my watchdog device gets probed) now don't end up doing the somewhat expensive sysfs_slab_add() themselves. Some example lines (with initcall_debug set) before/after: initcall ext4_init_fs+0x0/0x1ac returned 0 after 1386 usecs initcall journal_init+0x0/0x138 returned 0 after 517 usecs initcall init_fat_fs+0x0/0x68 returned 0 after 294 usecs initcall ext4_init_fs+0x0/0x1ac returned 0 after 240 usecs initcall journal_init+0x0/0x138 returned 0 after 32 usecs initcall init_fat_fs+0x0/0x68 returned 0 after 18 usecs Altogether, this means I now get to petting the watchdog around 17ms sooner. [Of course, the time the other initcalls save is instead spent in slab_sysfs_init(), which goes from 11ms to 16ms, so there's no overall change in boot time.] Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- The numbers certainly suggest that someone might want to look into making sysfs/kobject/kset perform better. But that would be way more complicated than this patch, and could not possibly achieve the same win as getting the sysfs_slab_add() overhead completely out of the way. mm/slub.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 4b98dff9be8e..dade5c84a7bb 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -6070,8 +6070,7 @@ static int __init slab_sysfs_init(void) mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex); return 0; } - -__initcall(slab_sysfs_init); +late_initcall(slab_sysfs_init); #endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */ #if defined(CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG) && defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS) -- 2.37.2
