Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] mm: Init page count in reserve_bootmem_region when MEMINIT_EARLY

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On 2023/9/29 18:02, Mike Rapoport wrote:
On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 05:50:40PM +0800, Yajun Deng wrote:
On 2023/9/29 16:30, Mike Rapoport wrote:
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 04:33:02PM +0800, Yajun Deng wrote:
memmap_init_range() would init page count of all pages, but the free
pages count would be reset in __free_pages_core(). There are opposite
operations. It's unnecessary and time-consuming when it's MEMINIT_EARLY
context.

Init page count in reserve_bootmem_region when in MEMINIT_EARLY context,
and check the page count before reset it.

At the same time, the INIT_LIST_HEAD in reserve_bootmem_region isn't
need, as it already done in __init_single_page.

The following data was tested on an x86 machine with 190GB of RAM.

before:
free_low_memory_core_early()    341ms

after:
free_low_memory_core_early()    285ms

Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v4: same with v2.
v3: same with v2.
v2: check page count instead of check context before reset it.
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230922070923.355656-1-yajun.deng@xxxxxxxxx/
---
   mm/mm_init.c    | 18 +++++++++++++-----
   mm/page_alloc.c | 20 ++++++++++++--------
   2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
index 9716c8a7ade9..3ab8861e1ef3 100644
--- a/mm/mm_init.c
+++ b/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ static void __meminit init_reserved_page(unsigned long pfn, int nid)
   		if (zone_spans_pfn(zone, pfn))
   			break;
   	}
-	__init_single_page(pfn_to_page(pfn), pfn, zid, nid, INIT_PAGE_COUNT);
+	__init_single_page(pfn_to_page(pfn), pfn, zid, nid, 0);
   }
   #else
   static inline void pgdat_set_deferred_range(pg_data_t *pgdat) {}
@@ -756,8 +756,8 @@ void __meminit reserve_bootmem_region(phys_addr_t start,
   			init_reserved_page(start_pfn, nid);
-			/* Avoid false-positive PageTail() */
-			INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
+			/* Init page count for reserved region */
Please add a comment that describes _why_ we initialize the page count here.
Okay.
+			init_page_count(page);
   			/*
   			 * no need for atomic set_bit because the struct
@@ -888,9 +888,17 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_range(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone
   		}
   		page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
-		__init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid, INIT_PAGE_COUNT);
-		if (context == MEMINIT_HOTPLUG)
+
+		/* If the context is MEMINIT_EARLY, we will init page count and
+		 * mark page reserved in reserve_bootmem_region, the free region
+		 * wouldn't have page count and we will check the pages count
+		 * in __free_pages_core.
+		 */
+		__init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid, 0);
+		if (context == MEMINIT_HOTPLUG) {
+			init_page_count(page);
   			__SetPageReserved(page);
Rather than calling init_page_count() and __SetPageReserved() for
MEMINIT_HOTPLUG you can set flags to INIT_PAGE_COUNT | INIT_PAGE_RESERVED
an call __init_single_page() after the check for MEMINIT_HOTPLUG.
No, the following code would cost more time than the current code in
memmap_init().

if (context == MEMINIT_HOTPLUG)

	__init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid, INIT_PAGE_COUNT | INIT_PAGE_RESERVED);
else
	
	__init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid, 0);
Sorry if I wasn't clear. What I meant was to have something along these lines:

	enum page_init_flags flags = 0;

	if (context == MEMINIT_HOTPLUG)
		flags = INIT_PAGE_COUNT | INIT_PAGE_RESERVED;
	__init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid, flags);

Okay, I'll test the time consumed in memmap_init().
But more generally, I wonder if we have to differentiate HOTPLUG here at all.
@David, can you comment please?

+		}
   		/*
   		 * Usually, we want to mark the pageblock MIGRATE_MOVABLE,
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 06be8821d833..b868caabe8dc 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1285,18 +1285,22 @@ void __free_pages_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
   	unsigned int loop;
   	/*
-	 * When initializing the memmap, __init_single_page() sets the refcount
-	 * of all pages to 1 ("allocated"/"not free"). We have to set the
-	 * refcount of all involved pages to 0.
+	 * When initializing the memmap, memmap_init_range sets the refcount
+	 * of all pages to 1 ("reserved" and "free") in hotplug context. We
+	 * have to set the refcount of all involved pages to 0. Otherwise,
+	 * we don't do it, as reserve_bootmem_region only set the refcount on
+	 * reserve region ("reserved") in early context.
   	 */
Again, why hotplug and early init should be different?
I will add a comment that describes it will save boot time.
But why do we need initialize struct pages differently at boot time vs
memory hotplug?
Is there a reason memory hotplug cannot have page count set to 0 just like
for pages reserved at boot time?

This patch just save boot time in MEMINIT_EARLY. If someone finds out that it can save time in

MEMINIT_HOTPLUG, I think it can be done in another patch later. I just keeping it in the same.

-	prefetchw(p);
-	for (loop = 0; loop < (nr_pages - 1); loop++, p++) {
-		prefetchw(p + 1);
+	if (page_count(page)) {
+		prefetchw(p);
+		for (loop = 0; loop < (nr_pages - 1); loop++, p++) {
+			prefetchw(p + 1);
+			__ClearPageReserved(p);
+			set_page_count(p, 0);
+		}
   		__ClearPageReserved(p);
   		set_page_count(p, 0);
   	}
-	__ClearPageReserved(p);
-	set_page_count(p, 0);
   	atomic_long_add(nr_pages, &page_zone(page)->managed_pages);
--
2.25.1





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