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SubjectRe: [RFC 0/4] Transparent on-demand struct page initialization embedded in the buddy allocator
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 01:17:44PM +0800, Sam Ben wrote:
>> >With this patch, we did boot a 16TiB machine. Without the patches,
>> >the v3.10 kernel with the same configuration took 407 seconds for
>> >free_all_bootmem. With the patches and operating on 2MiB pages instead
>> >of 1GiB, it took 26 seconds so performance was improved. I have no feel
>> >for how the 1GiB chunk size will perform.
>>
>> How to test how much time spend on free_all_bootmem?
>
> We had put a pr_emerg at the beginning and end of free_all_bootmem and
> then used a modified version of script which record the time in uSecs
> at the beginning of each line of output.

used two patches, found 3TiB system will take 100s before slub is ready.

about three portions:
1. sparse vmemap buf allocation, it is with bootmem wrapper, so clear those
struct page area take about 30s.
2. memmap_init_zone: take about 25s
3. mem_init/free_all_bootmem about 30s.

so still wonder why 16TiB will need hours.

also your patches looks like only address 2 and 3.

Yinghai
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