The patch titled
Subject: mm: meminit: reduce number of times pageblocks are set during struct page init
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-meminit-reduce-number-of-times-pageblocks-are-set-during-struct-page-init.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-meminit-reduce-number-of-times-pageblocks-are-set-during-struct-page-init.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-meminit-reduce-number-of-times-pageblocks-are-set-during-struct-page-init.patch
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: meminit: reduce number of times pageblocks are set during struct page init
During parallel sturct page initialisation, ranges are checked for every
PFN unnecessarily which increases boot times. This patch alters when the
ranges are checked.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Waiman Long <waiman.long@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@xxxxxx>
Cc: Scott Norton <scott.norton@xxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-meminit-reduce-number-of-times-pageblocks-are-set-during-struct-page-init mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-meminit-reduce-number-of-times-pageblocks-are-set-during-struct-page-init
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -852,33 +852,12 @@ static int free_tail_pages_check(struct
static void __meminit __init_single_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
unsigned long zone, int nid)
{
- struct zone *z = &NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zones[zone];
-
set_page_links(page, zone, nid, pfn);
mminit_verify_page_links(page, zone, nid, pfn);
init_page_count(page);
page_mapcount_reset(page);
page_cpupid_reset_last(page);
- /*
- * Mark the block movable so that blocks are reserved for
- * movable at startup. This will force kernel allocations
- * to reserve their blocks rather than leaking throughout
- * the address space during boot when many long-lived
- * kernel allocations are made. Later some blocks near
- * the start are marked MIGRATE_RESERVE by
- * setup_zone_migrate_reserve()
- *
- * bitmap is created for zone's valid pfn range. but memmap
- * can be created for invalid pages (for alignment)
- * check here not to call set_pageblock_migratetype() against
- * pfn out of zone.
- */
- if ((z->zone_start_pfn <= pfn)
- && (pfn < zone_end_pfn(z))
- && !(pfn & (pageblock_nr_pages - 1)))
- set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_MOVABLE);
-
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
#ifdef WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL
/* The shift won't overflow because ZONE_NORMAL is below 4G. */
@@ -1074,6 +1053,7 @@ static void __defermem_init deferred_fre
/* Free a large naturally-aligned chunk if possible */
if (nr_pages == MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES &&
(pfn & (MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES-1)) == 0) {
+ set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_MOVABLE);
__free_pages_boot_core(page, pfn, MAX_ORDER-1);
return;
}
@@ -4535,7 +4515,29 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned
&nr_initialised))
break;
}
- __init_single_pfn(pfn, zone, nid);
+
+ /*
+ * Mark the block movable so that blocks are reserved for
+ * movable at startup. This will force kernel allocations
+ * to reserve their blocks rather than leaking throughout
+ * the address space during boot when many long-lived
+ * kernel allocations are made. Later some blocks near
+ * the start are marked MIGRATE_RESERVE by
+ * setup_zone_migrate_reserve()
+ *
+ * bitmap is created for zone's valid pfn range. but memmap
+ * can be created for invalid pages (for alignment)
+ * check here not to call set_pageblock_migratetype() against
+ * pfn out of zone.
+ */
+ if (!(pfn & (pageblock_nr_pages - 1))) {
+ struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
+
+ set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_MOVABLE);
+ __init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid);
+ } else {
+ __init_single_pfn(pfn, zone, nid);
+ }
}
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxx are
jbd2-revert-must-not-fail-allocation-loops-back-to-gfp_nofail.patch
thp-cleanup-how-khugepaged-enters-freezer.patch
mm-new-mm-hook-framework.patch
mm-new-arch_remap-hook.patch
powerpc-mm-tracking-vdso-remap.patch
memblock-introduce-a-for_each_reserved_mem_region-iterator.patch
mm-meminit-move-page-initialization-into-a-separate-function.patch
mm-meminit-only-set-page-reserved-in-the-memblock-region.patch
mm-page_alloc-pass-pfn-to-__free_pages_bootmem.patch
mm-meminit-make-__early_pfn_to_nid-smp-safe-and-introduce-meminit_pfn_in_nid.patch
mm-meminit-inline-some-helper-functions.patch
mm-meminit-initialise-a-subset-of-struct-pages-if-config_deferred_struct_page_init-is-set.patch
mm-meminit-initialise-remaining-struct-pages-in-parallel-with-kswapd.patch
mm-meminit-minimise-number-of-pfn-page-lookups-during-initialisation.patch
x86-mm-enable-deferred-struct-page-initialisation-on-x86-64.patch
mm-meminit-free-pages-in-large-chunks-where-possible.patch
mm-meminit-reduce-number-of-times-pageblocks-are-set-during-struct-page-init.patch
mm-meminit-remove-mminit_verify_page_links.patch
page-flags-trivial-cleanup-for-pagetrans-helpers.patch
page-flags-introduce-page-flags-policies-wrt-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_locked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-fs-io-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-lru-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-slb-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-behavior-of-xen-related-flags-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_reserved-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_swapbacked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_swapcache-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_mlocked-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_uncached-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-define-pg_uptodate-behavior-on-compound-pages.patch
page-flags-look-on-head-page-if-the-flag-is-encoded-in-page-mapping.patch
mm-sanitize-page-mapping-for-tail-pages.patch
mm-vmscan-do-not-throttle-based-on-pfmemalloc-reserves-if-node-has-no-reclaimable-pages.patch
mm-vmscan-fix-the-page-state-calculation-in-too_many_isolated.patch
mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list.patch
mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list-fix.patch
mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list-fix-fix.patch
do_shared_fault-check-that-mmap_sem-is-held.patch
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