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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2015-06-30 14:57:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-30 19:44:56 -0700
commit3a80a7fa7989fbb6aa56bb6ad31811b62cf99e60 (patch)
treecfcd9fb093f891b4218618d63347cfa63be7e38f /mm/Kconfig
parent75a592a47129dcfc1aec40e7d3cdf239a767d441 (diff)
mm: meminit: initialise a subset of struct pages if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set
This patch initalises all low memory struct pages and 2G of the highest zone on each node during memory initialisation if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set. That config option cannot be set but will be available in a later patch. Parallel initialisation of struct page depends on some features from memory hotplug and it is necessary to alter alter section annotations. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Tested-by: Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Tested-by: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> Tested-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com> Cc: Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> Cc: Scott Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index c180af880ed5..e79de2bd12cd 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -636,3 +636,21 @@ config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB
changed to a smaller value in which case that is used.
A sane initial value is 80 MB.
+
+# For architectures that support deferred memory initialisation
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
+ bool
+
+config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
+ bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kswapd"
+ default n
+ depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
+ depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+ help
+ Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a
+ single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable
+ amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up
+ a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel
+ when kswapd starts. This has a potential performance impact on
+ processes running early in the lifetime of the systemm until kswapd
+ finishes the initialisation.