On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Pekka Enberg <penb...@kernel.org> wrote:
> > How significant is the speed gain? The "isa_done" flag makes code flow
> > more difficult to follow.
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Not really much.
>
> when booting system:
> memmap=16m$128m memmap=16m$512m memmap=16m$256m memmap=16m$768m
> memmap=16m$1024m
>
> with the patch
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x00000000-0x07ffffff]
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x00000000-0x07ffffff] page 2M
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x09000000-0x0fffffff]
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x09000000-0x0fffffff] page 2M
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x11000000-0x1fffffff]
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x11000000-0x1fffffff] page 2M
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x21000000-0x2fffffff]
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x21000000-0x2fffffff] page 2M
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x31000000-0x3fffffff]
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x31000000-0x3fffffff] page 2M
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x41000000-0x7fffdfff]
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x41000000-0x7fdfffff] page 2M
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x7fe00000-0x7fffdfff] page 4k
>
> otherwise will have
>
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff]
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff] page 4k
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x00100000-0x07ffffff]
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x00100000-0x001fffff] page 4k
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x00200000-0x07ffffff] page 2M
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x09000000-0x0fffffff]
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x09000000-0x0fffffff] page 2M
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x11000000-0x1fffffff]
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x11000000-0x1fffffff] page 2M
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x21000000-0x2fffffff]
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x21000000-0x2fffffff] page 2M
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x31000000-0x3fffffff]
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x31000000-0x3fffffff] page 2M
> [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x41000000-0x7fffdfff]
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x41000000-0x7fdfffff] page 2M
> [ 0.000000] [mem 0x7fe00000-0x7fffdfff] page 4k
OK. Is there any other reason than performance to do this?
Pekka
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