linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 2/2] x86_64, mm: Reinsert the absent memory

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jun 2013 08:07:42 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@....com>
CC:	holt@....com, travis@....com, rob@...dley.net, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...hat.com, yinghai@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] x86_64, mm: Reinsert the absent memory

I have to say I really like this concept. It should have some very nice properties including perhaps making THP work better?

Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:

>
>* Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@....com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:28:40AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> > 
>> > That's 4.5 GB/sec initialization speed - that feels a bit slow and
>the 
>> > boot time effect should be felt on smaller 'a couple of gigabytes' 
>> > desktop boxes as well. Do we know exactly where the 2 hours of boot
>
>> > time on a 32 TB system is spent?
>> 
>> There are other several spots that could be improved on a large
>system 
>> but memory initialization is by far the biggest.
>
>My feeling is that deferred/on-demand initialization triggered from the
>
>buddy allocator is the better long term solution.
>
>That will also make it much easier to profile/test memory init 
>performance: boot up a large system and run a simple testprogram that 
>allocates a lot of RAM.
>
>( It will also make people want to optimize the initialization sequence
>
>  better, as it will be part of any freshly booted system's memory 
>  allocation overhead. )
>
>Thanks,
>
>	Ingo

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