Subject: Re: [v1 0/5] parallelized "struct page" zeroing

From: Heiko Carstens <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 10:35:55 +0100

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 09:51:09AM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 03/24/2017 12:01 AM, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> > When deferred struct page initialization feature is enabled, we get a
> > performance gain of initializing vmemmap in parallel after other CPUs are
> > started. However, we still zero the memory for vmemmap using one boot CPU.
> > This patch-set fixes the memset-zeroing limitation by deferring it as well.
> > 
> > Here is example performance gain on SPARC with 32T:
> > base
> > https://hastebin.com/ozanelatat.go
> > 
> > fix
> > https://hastebin.com/utonawukof.go
> > 
> > As you can see without the fix it takes: 97.89s to boot
> > With the fix it takes: 46.91 to boot.
> > 
> > On x86 time saving is going to be even greater (proportionally to memory size)
> > because there are twice as many "struct page"es for the same amount of memory,
> > as base pages are twice smaller.
> 
> Fixing the linux-s390 mailing list email.
> This might be useful for s390 as well.

Unfortunately only for the fake numa case, since as far as I understand it,
parallelization happens only on a node granularity. And since we are
usually only having one node...

But anyway, it won't hurt to set ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT on
s390 also. I'll do some testing and then we'll see.

Pavel, could you please change your patch 5 so it also converts the s390
call sites of vmemmap_alloc_block() so they use VMEMMAP_ZERO instead of
'true' as argument?