Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:10:35 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/4] hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page allocation on boot | From | David Hildenbrand <> |
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On 23.11.23 14:30, Gang Li wrote: > From: Gang Li <ligang.bdlg@bytedance.com> > > Inspired by these patches [1][2], this series aims to speed up the > initialization of hugetlb during the boot process through > parallelization. > > It is particularly effective in large systems. On a machine equipped > with 1TB of memory and two NUMA nodes, the time for hugetlb > initialization was reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second.
Sorry to say, but why is that a scenario worth adding complexity for / optimizing for? You don't cover that, so there is a clear lack in the motivation.
2 vs. 1 second on a 1 TiB system is usually really just noise.
-- Cheers,
David / dhildenb
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