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authorDaniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>2020-08-12 04:32:12 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-08-12 20:57:57 +0300
commitfe124c95df9e2acf202910b0510300e37afe074b (patch)
treeb212e742fa874a7a97104f8be695bbf5fe4364a6 /arch/x86
parentd49653f35adff8c778e7c5fbd4dbdf929594eca8 (diff)
downloadlinux-fe124c95df9e2acf202910b0510300e37afe074b.tar.xz
x86/mm: use max memory block size on bare metal
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. [daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com: v3] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200714205450.945834-1-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200609225451.3542648-1-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/init_64.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 3b246ae40c8f..a4ac13cc3fdc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -1452,6 +1452,15 @@ 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 (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR)) {
+ bz = MAX_BLOCK_SIZE;
+ goto done;
+ }
+
/* 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))