linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 0/6] optimize memblock_next_valid_pfn and early_pfn

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Date:   Fri, 6 Jul 2018 17:27:37 +0800
From:   Jia He <hejianet@...il.com>
To:     Jia He <hejianet@...il.com>, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
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        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
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        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:     Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>,
        Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
        AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>,
        Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@...fitbricks.com>,
        Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@...cle.com>,
        Daniel Vacek <neelx@...hat.com>,
        Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@...adit-jv.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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        YASUAKI ISHIMATSU <yasu.isimatu@...il.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>, richard.weiyang@...il.com,
        Jia He <jia.he@...-semitech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 0/6] optimize memblock_next_valid_pfn and
 early_pfn_valid on arm and arm64

Sorry for my mistake, I have to resend this set because I missed some
important maillists. Please ignore this thread.
Terribly sorry about it

Cheers，
Jia

On 7/6/2018 4:14 PM, Jia He Wrote:
> From: Jia He <jia.he@...-semitech.com>
> 
> Commit b92df1de5d28 ("mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns
> where possible") optimized the loop in memmap_init_zone(). But it causes
> possible panic bug. So Daniel Vacek reverted it later.
> 
> But as suggested by Daniel Vacek, it is fine to using memblock to skip
> gaps and finding next valid frame with CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID.
> 
> More from what Daniel said:
> "On arm and arm64, memblock is used by default. But generic version of
> pfn_valid() is based on mem sections and memblock_next_valid_pfn() does
> not always return the next valid one but skips more resulting in some
> valid frames to be skipped (as if they were invalid). And that's why
> kernel was eventually crashing on some !arm machines."
> 
> About the performance consideration:
> As said by James in b92df1de5,
> "I have tested this patch on a virtual model of a Samurai CPU with a
> sparse memory map.  The kernel boot time drops from 109 to 62 seconds."
> Thus it would be better if we remain memblock_next_valid_pfn on arm/arm64.
> 
> Besides we can remain memblock_next_valid_pfn, there is still some room
> for improvement. After this set, I can see the time overhead of memmap_init
> is reduced from 27956us to 13537us in my armv8a server(QDF2400 with 96G
> memory, pagesize 64k). I believe arm server will benefit more if memory is
> larger than TBs
> 
> Patch 1 introduces new config to make codes more generic
> Patch 2 remains the memblock_next_valid_pfn on arm and arm64,this patch is
> 	originated from b92df1de5
> Patch 3 optimizes the memblock_next_valid_pfn()
> Patch 4~6 optimizes the early_pfn_valid()
> 
> Changelog:
> V10:- move codes to memblock.c, refine the performance consideration
> V9: - rebase to mmotm master, refine the log description. No major changes
> V8: - introduce new config and move generic code to early_pfn.h
>     - optimize memblock_next_valid_pfn as suggested by Matthew Wilcox
> V7: - fix i386 compilation error. refine the commit description
> V6: - simplify the codes, move arm/arm64 common codes to one file.
>     - refine patches as suggested by Danial Vacek and Ard Biesheuvel
> V5: - further refining as suggested by Danial Vacek. Make codes
>       arm/arm64 more arch specific
> V4: - refine patches as suggested by Danial Vacek and Wei Yang
>     - optimized on arm besides arm64
> V3: - fix 2 issues reported by kbuild test robot
> V2: - rebase to mmotm latest
>     - remain memblock_next_valid_pfn on arm64
>     - refine memblock_search_pfn_regions and pfn_valid_region
> 
> Jia He (6):
>   arm: arm64: introduce CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PFN_VALID
>   mm: page_alloc: remain memblock_next_valid_pfn() on arm/arm64
>   mm: page_alloc: reduce unnecessary binary search in
>     memblock_next_valid_pfn()
>   mm/memblock: introduce memblock_search_pfn_regions()
>   mm/memblock: introduce pfn_valid_region()
>   mm: page_alloc: reduce unnecessary binary search in early_pfn_valid()
> 
>  arch/arm/Kconfig         |  4 +++
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig       |  4 +++
>  include/linux/memblock.h |  2 ++
>  include/linux/mmzone.h   | 16 +++++++++
>  mm/Kconfig               |  3 ++
>  mm/memblock.c            | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/page_alloc.c          |  5 ++-
>  7 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

-- 
Cheers,
Jia