tree 223e4f3905c1519625e3973d8f25482c1f86b94f
parent 98383031ed77c6eb49ab612166fef9c0efe1604a
author Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> 1285786856 -0500
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 1287767804 -0700

driver core: Convert link_mem_sections to use find_memory_block_hinted.

Modify link_mem_sections() to pass in the previous mem_block as a hint to
locating the next mem_block.  Since they are typically added in order this
results in a massive saving in time during boot of a very large system.
For example, on a 16TB x86_64 machine, it reduced the total time spent
linking all node's memory sections from 1 hour, 27 minutes to 46 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>