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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: meminit: Finish initialisation of struct pages before basic setup
Hi Nate,

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> 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.
>
> The other spot I suspect is the zone lock in free_one_page.
> I haven't been able to give that much thought as of yet though.
>
> Daniel do you mind seeing if the attached patch helps out?

Just got back from travel, so apologies for the delays.

The patch doesn't mitigate the increasing initialisation time; summing
the per-node times for an accurate measure, there was a total of
171.48s before the patch and 175.23s after. I double-checked and got
similar data.

Thanks,
Daniel



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