When booting on a large memory system, the kernel spends considerable
time in memmap_init_zone() setting up memory zones. Analysis shows
significant time spent in __early_pfn_to_nid().
The routine memmap_init_zone() checks each PFN to verify the nid is
valid. __early_pfn_to_nid() sequentially scans the list of pfn ranges
to find the right range and returns the nid. This does not scale well.
On a 4 TB (single rack) system there are 308 memory ranges to scan. The
higher the PFN the more time spent sequentially spinning through memory
ranges.
Since memmap_init_zone() increments pfn, it will almost always be
looking for the same range as the previous pfn, so check that range
first. If it is in the same range, return that nid. If not, scan the
list as before.
A 4 TB (single rack) UV1 system takes 512 seconds to get through the
zone code. This performance optimization reduces the time by 189
seconds, a 36% improvement.
A 2 TB (single rack) UV2 system goes from 212.7 seconds to 99.8 seconds,
a 112.9 second (53%) reduction.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make the statics __meminitdata]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment formatting]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64, per yinghai]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing semicolon, per Tony]
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Tested-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Lin Feng <linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Russ Anderson
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