On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:38 AM, nzimmer <nzim...@sgi.com> wrote:
On 04/28/2015 11:06 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de> wrote:
Struct page initialisation had been identified as one of the
reasons why
large machines take a long time to boot. Patches were posted a long
time ago
to defer initialisation until they were first used. This was
rejected on
the grounds it should not be necessary to hurt the fast paths. This
series
reuses much of the work from that time but defers the
initialisation of
memory to kswapd so that one thread per node initialises memory
local to
that node.
After applying the series and setting the appropriate Kconfig
variable I
see this in the boot log on a 64G machine
[ 7.383764] kswapd 0 initialised deferred memory in 188ms
[ 7.404253] kswapd 1 initialised deferred memory in 208ms
[ 7.411044] kswapd 3 initialised deferred memory in 216ms
[ 7.411551] kswapd 2 initialised deferred memory in 216ms
On a 1TB machine, I see
[ 8.406511] kswapd 3 initialised deferred memory in 1116ms
[ 8.428518] kswapd 1 initialised deferred memory in 1140ms
[ 8.435977] kswapd 0 initialised deferred memory in 1148ms
[ 8.437416] kswapd 2 initialised deferred memory in 1148ms
Once booted the machine appears to work as normal. Boot times were
measured
from the time shutdown was called until ssh was available again.
In the
64G case, the boot time savings are negligible. On the 1TB machine,
the
savings were 16 seconds.
On an older 8 TB box with lots and lots of cpus the boot time, as
measure from grub to login prompt, the boot time improved from 1484
seconds to exactly 1000 seconds.
I have time on 16 TB box tonight and a 12 TB box thursday and will
hopefully have more numbers then.
Neat, and a roughly similar picture here.
On a 7TB, 1728-core NumaConnect system with 108 NUMA nodes, we're
seeing stock 4.0 boot in 7136s. This drops to 2159s, or a 70% reduction
with this patchset. Non-temporal PMD init [1] drops this to 1045s.
Nathan, what do you guys see with the non-temporal PMD patch [1]? Do
add a sfence at the ende label if you manually patch.
Thanks!
Daniel
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/23/350
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