Re: [PATCH v5 2/8] hugetlb: restructure pool allocations

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> On Sep 25, 2023, at 08:39, Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Allocation of a hugetlb page for the hugetlb pool is done by the routine
> alloc_pool_huge_page.  This routine will allocate contiguous pages from
> a low level allocator, prep the pages for usage as a hugetlb page and
> then add the resulting hugetlb page to the pool.
> 
> In the 'prep' stage, optional vmemmap optimization is done.  For
> performance reasons we want to perform vmemmap optimization on multiple
> hugetlb pages at once.  To do this, restructure the hugetlb pool
> allocation code such that vmemmap optimization can be isolated and later
> batched.
> 
> The code to allocate hugetlb pages from bootmem was also modified to
> allow batching.
> 
> No functional changes, only code restructure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.




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