linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v3 0/5] Transparent on-demand struct page initialization embedded in the buddy allocator

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Date:	Tue, 13 Aug 2013 12:06:24 -0700
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@....com>, Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel@...ascale-asia.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 0/5] Transparent on-demand struct page initialization
 embedded in the buddy allocator



On 8/13/2013 11:04 AM, Mike Travis wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/13/2013 10:51 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> by the time you can log in. And if it then takes another ten minutes
>> until you have the full 16TB initialized, and some things might be a
>> tad slower early on, does anybody really care?  The machine will be up
>> and running with plenty of memory, even if it may not be *all* the
>> memory yet.
> 
> Before the patches adding memory took ~45 mins for 16TB and almost 2 hours
> for 32TB.  Adding it late sped up early boot but late insertion was still
> very slow, where the full 32TB was still not fully inserted after an hour.
> Doing it in parallel along with the memory hotplug lock per node, we got
> it down to the 10-15 minute range.
> 

FYI, the system at this time had 128 nodes each with 256GB of memory.
About 252GB was inserted into the absent list from nodes 1 .. 126.
Memory on nodes 0 and 128 was left fully present.
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