Re: [PATCH] mm: meminit: Finish initialisation of struct pages before basic setup

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 09:48:55PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:50:28PM -0500, Nathan Zimmer wrote:
> > My apologies for taking so long to get back to this.
> > 
> > I think I did locate two potential sources of slowdown.
> > One is the set_cpus_allowed_ptr as I have noted previously.
> > However I only notice that on the very largest boxes.
> > I did cobble together a patch that seems to help.
> > 
> 
> If you are using kthread_create_on_node(), is it even necessary to call
> set_cpus_allowed_ptr() at all?
> 

That aside, are you aware of any failure with this series as it currently
stands in Andrew's tree that this patch is meant to address?  It seems
like a nice follow-on that would boot faster on very large machines but
if it's addressing a regression then it's very important as the series
cannot be merged with known critical failures.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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