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    x86/mm: use max memory block size on bare metal · fe124c95
    Daniel Jordan authored
    Some of our servers spend significant time at kernel boot initializing
    memory block sysfs directories and then creating symlinks between them and
    the corresponding nodes.  The slowness happens because the machines get
    stuck with the smallest supported memory block size on x86 (128M), which
    results in 16,288 directories to cover the 2T of installed RAM.  The
    search for each memory block is noticeable even with commit 4fb6eabf
    ("drivers/base/memory.c: cache memory blocks in xarray to accelerate
    lookup").
    
    Commit 078eb6aa ("x86/mm/memory_hotplug: determine block size based on
    the end of boot memory") chooses the block size based on alignment with
    memory end.  That addresses hotplug failures in qemu guests, but for bare
    metal systems whose memory end isn't aligned to even the smallest size, it
    leaves them at 128M.
    
    Make kernels that aren't running on a hypervisor use the largest supported
    size (2G) to minimize overhead on big machines.  Kernel boot goes 7%
    faster on the aforementioned servers, shaving off half a second.
    
    [daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com: v3]
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200714205450.945834-1-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.comSigned-off-by: default avatarDaniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
    Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200609225451.3542648-1-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.comSigned-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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