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authorLi Zhang <zhlcindy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-03-17 14:20:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-17 15:09:34 -0700
commit987b3095c2a76ea1b90438f5ace6f9cee354a47d (patch)
tree693c73404caf3a46979ea4a623821cf00df2abc9 /mm/page_alloc.c
parent5f7377147ce0b5d521c0ee2aab2ec3ead51297db (diff)
mm: meminit: initialise more memory for inode/dentry hash tables in early boot
Upstream has supported page parallel initialisation for X86 and the boot time is improved greately. Some tests have been done for Power. Here is the result I have done with different memory size. * 4GB memory: boot time is as the following: with patch vs without patch: 10.4s vs 24.5s boot time is improved 57% * 200GB memory: boot time looks the same with and without patches. boot time is about 38s * 32TB memory: boot time looks the same with and without patches boot time is about 160s. The boot time is much shorter than X86 with 24TB memory. From community discussion, it costs about 694s for X86 24T system. Parallel initialisation improves the performance by deferring memory initilisation to kswap with N kthreads, it should improve the performance therotically. In testing on X86, performance is improved greatly with huge memory. But on Power platform, it is improved greatly with less than 100GB memory. For huge memory, it is not improved greatly. But it saves the time with several threads at least, as the following information shows(32TB system log): [ 22.648169] node 9 initialised, 16607461 pages in 280ms [ 22.783772] node 3 initialised, 23937243 pages in 410ms [ 22.858877] node 6 initialised, 29179347 pages in 490ms [ 22.863252] node 2 initialised, 29179347 pages in 490ms [ 22.907545] node 0 initialised, 32049614 pages in 540ms [ 22.920891] node 15 initialised, 32212280 pages in 550ms [ 22.923236] node 4 initialised, 32306127 pages in 550ms [ 22.923384] node 12 initialised, 32314319 pages in 550ms [ 22.924754] node 8 initialised, 32314319 pages in 550ms [ 22.940780] node 13 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms [ 22.940796] node 11 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms [ 22.941700] node 5 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms [ 22.941721] node 10 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms [ 22.941876] node 7 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms [ 22.944946] node 14 initialised, 33353677 pages in 570ms [ 22.946063] node 1 initialised, 33345485 pages in 580ms It saves the time about 550*16 ms at least, although it can be ignore to compare the boot time about 160 seconds. What's more, the boot time is much shorter on Power even without patches than x86 for huge memory machine. So this patchset is still necessary to be enabled for Power. This patch (of 2): This patch is based on Mel Gorman's old patch in the mailing list, https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/5/280 which is discussed but it is fixed with a completion to wait for all memory initialised in page_alloc_init_late(). It is to fix the OOM problem on X86 with 24TB memory which allocates memory in late initialisation. But for Power platform with 32TB memory, it causes a call trace in vfs_caches_init->inode_init() and inode hash table needs more memory. So this patch allocates 1GB for 0.25TB/node for large system as it is mentioned in https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/1/627 This call trace is found on Power with 32TB memory, 1024CPUs, 16nodes. Currently, it only allocates 2GB*16=32GB for early initialisation. But Dentry cache hash table needes 16GB and Inode cache hash table needs 16GB. So the system have no enough memory for it. The log from dmesg as the following: Dentry cache hash table entries: 2147483648 (order: 18,17179869184 bytes) vmalloc: allocation failure, allocated 16021913600 of 17179934720 bytes swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:0,mode:0x2080020 CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.4.0-0-ppc64 Call Trace: .dump_stack+0xb4/0xb664 (unreliable) .warn_alloc_failed+0x114/0x160 .__vmalloc_area_node+0x1a4/0x2b0 .__vmalloc_node_range+0xe4/0x110 .__vmalloc_node+0x40/0x50 .alloc_large_system_hash+0x134/0x2a4 .inode_init+0xa4/0xf0 .vfs_caches_init+0x80/0x144 .start_kernel+0x40c/0x4e0 start_here_common+0x20/0x4a4 Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 2a9eaec770b0..3583f7195d5b 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -308,13 +308,20 @@ static inline bool update_defer_init(pg_data_t *pgdat,
unsigned long pfn, unsigned long zone_end,
unsigned long *nr_initialised)
{
+ unsigned long max_initialise;
+
/* Always populate low zones for address-contrained allocations */
if (zone_end < pgdat_end_pfn(pgdat))
return true;
+ /*
+ * Initialise at least 2G of a node but also take into account that
+ * two large system hashes that can take up 1GB for 0.25TB/node.
+ */
+ max_initialise = max(2UL << (30 - PAGE_SHIFT),
+ (pgdat->node_spanned_pages >> 8));
- /* Initialise at least 2G of the highest zone */
(*nr_initialised)++;
- if (*nr_initialised > (2UL << (30 - PAGE_SHIFT)) &&
+ if ((*nr_initialised > max_initialise) &&
(pfn & (PAGES_PER_SECTION - 1)) == 0) {
pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = pfn;
return false;