[PATCH 12/13] mm: meminit: Reduce number of times pageblocks are set during struct page init

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Wed Apr 22 2015 - 13:08:38 EST


During parallel sturct page initialisation, ranges are checked for every
PFN unnecessarily which increases boot times. This patch alters when the
ranges are checked.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 8d3fd13a09c9..945d56667b61 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -876,33 +876,12 @@ static int free_tail_pages_check(struct page *head_page, struct page *page)
static void __meminit __init_single_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
unsigned long zone, int nid)
{
- struct zone *z = &NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zones[zone];
-
set_page_links(page, zone, nid, pfn);
mminit_verify_page_links(page, zone, nid, pfn);
init_page_count(page);
page_mapcount_reset(page);
page_cpupid_reset_last(page);

- /*
- * Mark the block movable so that blocks are reserved for
- * movable at startup. This will force kernel allocations
- * to reserve their blocks rather than leaking throughout
- * the address space during boot when many long-lived
- * kernel allocations are made. Later some blocks near
- * the start are marked MIGRATE_RESERVE by
- * setup_zone_migrate_reserve()
- *
- * bitmap is created for zone's valid pfn range. but memmap
- * can be created for invalid pages (for alignment)
- * check here not to call set_pageblock_migratetype() against
- * pfn out of zone.
- */
- if ((z->zone_start_pfn <= pfn)
- && (pfn < zone_end_pfn(z))
- && !(pfn & (pageblock_nr_pages - 1)))
- set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_MOVABLE);
-
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
#ifdef WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL
/* The shift won't overflow because ZONE_NORMAL is below 4G. */
@@ -1091,6 +1070,7 @@ void __defermem_init deferred_free_range(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
int i;

if (nr_pages == MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES && (pfn & (MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES-1)) == 0) {
+ set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_MOVABLE);
__free_pages_boot_core(page, pfn, MAX_ORDER-1);
return;
}
@@ -4500,7 +4480,28 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
&nr_initialised))
break;
}
- __init_single_pfn(pfn, zone, nid);
+
+ /*
+ * Mark the block movable so that blocks are reserved for
+ * movable at startup. This will force kernel allocations
+ * to reserve their blocks rather than leaking throughout
+ * the address space during boot when many long-lived
+ * kernel allocations are made. Later some blocks near
+ * the start are marked MIGRATE_RESERVE by
+ * setup_zone_migrate_reserve()
+ *
+ * bitmap is created for zone's valid pfn range. but memmap
+ * can be created for invalid pages (for alignment)
+ * check here not to call set_pageblock_migratetype() against
+ * pfn out of zone.
+ */
+ if (!(pfn & (pageblock_nr_pages - 1))) {
+ struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
+ set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_MOVABLE);
+ __init_single_page(page, pfn, zone, nid);
+ } else {
+ __init_single_pfn(pfn, zone, nid);
+ }
}
}

--
2.1.2

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