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authorYasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>2014-01-21 15:49:06 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-21 16:19:43 -0800
commit943dca1a1fcbccb58de944669b833fd38a6c809b (patch)
treea15128dc37e1ebd0e1c01e56b9f69c2872965f76 /mm/page_alloc.c
parent34e431b0ae398fc54ea69ff85ec700722c9da773 (diff)
mm: get rid of unnecessary pageblock scanning in setup_zone_migrate_reserve
Yasuaki Ishimatsu reported memory hot-add spent more than 5 _hours_ on 9TB memory machine since onlining memory sections is too slow. And we found out setup_zone_migrate_reserve spent >90% of the time. The problem is, setup_zone_migrate_reserve scans all pageblocks unconditionally, but it is only necessary if the number of reserved block was reduced (i.e. memory hot remove). Moreover, maximum MIGRATE_RESERVE per zone is currently 2. It means that the number of reserved pageblocks is almost always unchanged. This patch adds zone->nr_migrate_reserve_block to maintain the number of MIGRATE_RESERVE pageblocks and it reduces the overhead of setup_zone_migrate_reserve dramatically. The following table shows time of onlining a memory section. Amount of memory | 128GB | 192GB | 256GB| --------------------------------------------- linux-3.12 | 23.9 | 31.4 | 44.5 | This patch | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.6 | Mel's proposal patch | 10.9 | 19.2 | 31.3 | --------------------------------------------- (millisecond) 128GB : 4 nodes and each node has 32GB of memory 192GB : 6 nodes and each node has 32GB of memory 256GB : 8 nodes and each node has 32GB of memory (*1) Mel proposed his idea by the following threads. https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/30/272 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 5248fe070aa..89d81f4429c 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3901,6 +3901,7 @@ static void setup_zone_migrate_reserve(struct zone *zone)
struct page *page;
unsigned long block_migratetype;
int reserve;
+ int old_reserve;
/*
* Get the start pfn, end pfn and the number of blocks to reserve
@@ -3922,6 +3923,12 @@ static void setup_zone_migrate_reserve(struct zone *zone)
* future allocation of hugepages at runtime.
*/
reserve = min(2, reserve);
+ old_reserve = zone->nr_migrate_reserve_block;
+
+ /* When memory hot-add, we almost always need to do nothing */
+ if (reserve == old_reserve)
+ return;
+ zone->nr_migrate_reserve_block = reserve;
for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += pageblock_nr_pages) {
if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
@@ -3959,6 +3966,12 @@ static void setup_zone_migrate_reserve(struct zone *zone)
reserve--;
continue;
}
+ } else if (!old_reserve) {
+ /*
+ * At boot time we don't need to scan the whole zone
+ * for turning off MIGRATE_RESERVE.
+ */
+ break;
}
/*