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SubjectRe: [v1 0/5] parallelized "struct page" zeroing
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 07:01:48PM -0400, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> When deferred struct page initialization feature is enabled, we get a
> performance gain of initializing vmemmap in parallel after other CPUs are
> started. However, we still zero the memory for vmemmap using one boot CPU.
> This patch-set fixes the memset-zeroing limitation by deferring it as well.
>
> Here is example performance gain on SPARC with 32T:
> base
> https://hastebin.com/ozanelatat.go
>
> fix
> https://hastebin.com/utonawukof.go
>
> As you can see without the fix it takes: 97.89s to boot
> With the fix it takes: 46.91 to boot.

How long does it take if we just don't zero this memory at all? We seem
to be initialising most of struct page in __init_single_page(), so it
seems like a lot of additional complexity to conditionally zero the rest
of struct page.

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