tree 0cf640d04be919592ed18fc197491732f7e630fd
parent 50a7ca3c6fc86955f99fc432fc8a186b968b365b
author Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> 1534545892 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1534548028 -0700

mm: skip invalid pages block at a time in zero_resv_unresv()

The role of zero_resv_unavail() is to make sure that every struct page
that is allocated but is not backed by memory that is accessible by
kernel is zeroed and not in some uninitialized state.

Since struct pages are allocated in blocks (2M pages in x86 case), we
can skip pageblock_nr_pages at a time, when the first one is found to be
invalid.

This optimization may help since now on x86 every hole in e820 maps is
marked as reserved in memblock, and thus will go through this function.

This function is called before sched_clock() is initialized, so I used
my x86 early boot clock patches to measure the performance improvement.

With 1T hole on i7-8700 currently we would take 0.606918s of boot time,
but with this optimization 0.001103s.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180615155733.1175-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <Pavel.Tatashin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>