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SubjectRe: [RFC 0/4] mm/memblock: Skip prep and initialization of struct pages freed later by HVO
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On 24/07/2023 14:46, Usama Arif wrote:
> If the region is for gigantic hugepages and if HVO is enabled, then those
> struct pages which will be freed later by HVO don't need to be prepared and
> initialized. This can save significant time when a large number of hugepages
> are allocated at boot time.
>
> For a 1G hugepage, this series avoid initialization and preparation of
> 262144 - 64 = 262080 struct pages per hugepage.
>
> When tested on a 512G system (which can allocate max 500 1G hugepages), the
> kexec-boot time with HVO and DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT enabled without this
> patchseries to running init is 3.9 seconds. With this patch it is 1.2 seconds.
> This represents an approximately 70% reduction in boot time and will
> significantly reduce server downtime when using a large number of
> gigantic pages.

There were a few errors reported by kernel-bot if different config
options were changed (CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP disabled,
CONFIG_CMA enabled). I will fix these in the next revision if the
general approach in the patches looks good to the community to start review.

Thanks,
Usama

>
> Thanks,
> Usama
>
> Usama Arif (4):
> mm/hugetlb: Skip prep of tail pages when HVO is enabled
> mm/memblock: Add hugepage_size member to struct memblock_region
> mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: Use nid of the head page to reallocate it
> mm/memblock: Skip initialization of struct pages freed later by HVO
>
> arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/iommu.c | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 4 +-
> arch/powerpc/sysdev/dart_iommu.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/memblock.h | 8 +-
> mm/cma.c | 4 +-
> mm/hugetlb.c | 36 +++++---
> mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 6 +-
> mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.h | 4 +
> mm/memblock.c | 87 +++++++++++++-------
> mm/mm_init.c | 2 +-
> mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 2 +-
> tools/testing/memblock/tests/alloc_nid_api.c | 2 +-
> 13 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
>

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