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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Create non-atomic version of SetPageReserved for init use
On Tue 04-09-18 11:33:45, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
>
> It doesn't make much sense to use the atomic SetPageReserved at init time
> when we are using memset to clear the memory and manipulating the page
> flags via simple "&=" and "|=" operations in __init_single_page.
>
> This patch adds a non-atomic version __SetPageReserved that can be used
> during page init and shows about a 10% improvement in initialization times
> on the systems I have available for testing.

I agree with Dave about a comment is due. I am also quite surprised that
this leads to such a large improvement. Could you be more specific about
your test and machines you were testing on?

Other than that the patch makes sense to me.

> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>

With the above addressed, feel free to add
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Thanks!

> ---
> include/linux/page-flags.h | 1 +
> mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> index 74bee8cecf4c..57ec3fef7e9f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
> +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> @@ -292,6 +292,7 @@ static inline int PagePoisoned(const struct page *page)
>
> PAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
> __CLEARPAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
> + __SETPAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved, PF_NO_COMPOUND)
> PAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_NO_TAIL)
> __CLEARPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_NO_TAIL)
> __SETPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked, PF_NO_TAIL)
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 05e983f42316..9c7d6e971630 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ void __meminit reserve_bootmem_region(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
> /* Avoid false-positive PageTail() */
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
>
> - SetPageReserved(page);
> + __SetPageReserved(page);
> }
> }
> }
> @@ -5518,7 +5518,7 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
> page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> __init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid);
> if (context == MEMMAP_HOTPLUG)
> - SetPageReserved(page);
> + __SetPageReserved(page);
>
> /*
> * Mark the block movable so that blocks are reserved for
>

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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