On 10.06.20 00:54, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> Some of our servers spend significant time at kernel boot initializing
> memory block sysfs directories and then creating symlinks between them
> and the corresponding nodes. The slowness happens because the machines
> get stuck with the smallest supported memory block size on x86 (128M),
> which results in 16,288 directories to cover the 2T of installed RAM.
> The search for each memory block is noticeable even with
> commit 4fb6eabf1037 ("drivers/base/memory.c: cache memory blocks in
> xarray to accelerate lookup").
>
> Commit 078eb6aa50dc ("x86/mm/memory_hotplug: determine block size based
> on the end of boot memory") chooses the block size based on alignment
> with memory end. That addresses hotplug failures in qemu guests, but
> for bare metal systems whose memory end isn't aligned to even the
> smallest size, it leaves them at 128M.
>
> Make kernels that aren't running on a hypervisor use the largest
> supported size (2G) to minimize overhead on big machines. Kernel boot
> goes 7% faster on the aforementioned servers, shaving off half a second.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jor...@oracle.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatas...@soleen.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sist...@oracle.com>
> Cc: linux...@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>
> Applies to 5.7 and today's mainline
>
> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 10 ++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> index 8b5f73f5e207c..906fbdb060748 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
> #include <asm/uv/uv.h>
> #include <asm/setup.h>
> #include <asm/ftrace.h>
> +#include <asm/hypervisor.h>
>
> #include "mm_internal.h"
>
> @@ -1390,6 +1391,15 @@ static unsigned long probe_memory_block_size(void)
> goto done;
> }
>
> + /*
> + * Use max block size to minimize overhead on bare metal, where
> + * alignment for memory hotplug isn't a concern.
> + */
> + if (hypervisor_is_type(X86_HYPER_NATIVE)) {
> + bz = MAX_BLOCK_SIZE;
> + goto done;
> + }
I'd assume that bioses on physical machines >= 64GB will not align
bigger (>= 2GB) DIMMs to something < 2GB.
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com>
> +
> /* Find the largest allowed block size that aligns to memory end */
> for (bz = MAX_BLOCK_SIZE; bz > MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE; bz >>= 1) {
> if (IS_ALIGNED(boot_mem_end, bz))
>
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
