Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031461AbbD2BQJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:16:09 -0400 Received: from g4t3425.houston.hp.com ([15.201.208.53]:43383 "EHLO g4t3425.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031266AbbD2BQF (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:16:05 -0400 Message-ID: <554030D1.8080509@hp.com> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 21:16:01 -0400 From: Waiman Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.12) Gecko/20130109 Thunderbird/10.0.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Gorman CC: Andrew Morton , Nathan Zimmer , Dave Hansen , Scott Norton , Daniel J Blueman , Linux-MM , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13] Parallel struct page initialisation v4 References: <1430231830-7702-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1430231830-7702-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3739 Lines: 84 On 04/28/2015 10:36 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > The bulk of the changes here are related to Andrew's feedback. Functionally > there is almost no difference. > > Changelog since v3 > o Fix section-related warning > o Comments, clarifications, checkpatch > o Report the number of pages initialised > > Changelog since v2 > o Reduce overhead of topology_init > o Remove boot-time kernel parameter to enable/disable > o Enable on UMA > > Changelog since v1 > o Always initialise low zones > o Typo corrections > o Rename parallel mem init to parallel struct page init > o Rebase to 4.0 > > 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. > > It would be nice if the people that have access to really large machines > would test this series and report how much boot time is reduced. > > I ran a bootup timing test on a 12-TB 16-socket IvyBridge-EX system. From grub menu to ssh login, the bootup time was 453s before the patch and 265s after the patch - a saving of 188s (42%). I used a different OS environment and config file with this test and so the timing data weren't comparable with my previous testing data. The kswapd log entries were [ 45.973967] kswapd 4 initialised 197655470 pages in 4390ms [ 45.974214] kswapd 7 initialised 197655470 pages in 4390ms [ 45.976692] kswapd 15 initialised 197654299 pages in 4390ms [ 45.993284] kswapd 0 initialised 197131131 pages in 4410ms [ 46.032735] kswapd 9 initialised 197655470 pages in 4447ms [ 46.065856] kswapd 8 initialised 197655470 pages in 4481ms [ 46.066615] kswapd 1 initialised 197622702 pages in 4483ms [ 46.077995] kswapd 2 initialised 197655470 pages in 4495ms [ 46.219508] kswapd 13 initialised 197655470 pages in 4633ms [ 46.224358] kswapd 3 initialised 197655470 pages in 4641ms [ 46.228441] kswapd 11 initialised 197655470 pages in 4643ms [ 46.232258] kswapd 12 initialised 197655470 pages in 4647ms [ 46.239659] kswapd 10 initialised 197655470 pages in 4654ms [ 46.243402] kswapd 14 initialised 197655470 pages in 4657ms [ 46.250368] kswapd 5 initialised 197655470 pages in 4666ms [ 46.254659] kswapd 6 initialised 197655470 pages in 4670ms Cheers, Longman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/