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| author | Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> | 2010-02-25 20:18:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2010-04-07 18:00:49 +1000 |
| commit | 7545ba6f82924d4523f8f8a2baf2e517a750265d (patch) | |
| tree | 7e2dc55ae231cb6a2a5122df6e18a4a1e452b1fe /arch/powerpc | |
| parent | e9bbc8cde0e3c33b42ddbe1b02108cb5c97275eb (diff) | |
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powerpc/mm: Bump SECTION_SIZE_BITS from 16MB to 256MB
The current setting for SECTION_SIZE_BITS is quite small compared to
everyone else:
arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h:#define SECTION_SIZE_BITS 24
arch/sparc/include/asm/sparsemem.h:#define SECTION_SIZE_BITS 30
arch/ia64/include/asm/sparsemem.h:#define SECTION_SIZE_BITS (30)
arch/s390/include/asm/sparsemem.h:#define SECTION_SIZE_BITS 28
arch/x86/include/asm/sparsemem.h:# define SECTION_SIZE_BITS 27
And it has proven to be an issue during boot on very large machines.
If hotplug memory is enabled, drivers/base/memory.c does this:
for (i = 0; i < NR_MEM_SECTIONS; i++) {
if (!present_section_nr(i))
continue;
err = add_memory_block(0, __nr_to_section(i), MEM_ONLINE,
0, BOOT);
if (!ret)
ret = err;
}
Which creates a sysfs directory for every 16MB of memory. As a result
I'm seeing up to 30 minutes spent here during boot:
c000000000248ee0 .__sysfs_add_one+0x28/0x128
c0000000002492a8 .sysfs_add_one+0x38/0x188
c000000000249c88 .create_dir+0x70/0x138
c000000000249d98 .sysfs_create_dir+0x48/0x78
c00000000032bad8 .kobject_add_internal+0x140/0x308
c00000000032beb4 .kobject_init_and_add+0x4c/0x68
c00000000046c2c0 .sysdev_register+0xa0/0x220
c00000000047b1dc .add_memory_block+0x124/0x1e8
c0000000008d1f28 .memory_dev_init+0xf4/0x168
c0000000008d1b64 .driver_init+0x50/0x64
c000000000890378 .do_basic_setup+0x40/0xd4
I assume there are some O(n^2) issues in sysfs as we add all the memory
nodes. Bumping SECTION_SIZE_BITS to 256 MB drops the time to about 10
seconds and results in a much smaller /sys.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h index 54a47ea2c3aa..13fe0a0e5806 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ * MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS 2^N: how much physical address space we have * MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS 2^N: how much memory we can have in that space */ -#define SECTION_SIZE_BITS 24 +#define SECTION_SIZE_BITS 28 #define MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS 44 #define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS 44 |
