[PATCH 2/2] powerpc/mm: Enable page parallel initialisation

From: Li Zhang
Date: Mon Mar 07 2016 - 22:57:09 EST


From: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Parallel initialisation has been enabled for X86, boot time is
improved greatly. On Power8, it is improved greatly for small
memory. Here is the result from my test on Power8 platform:

For 4GB memory: 57% is improved, boot time as the following:
with patch: 10s, without patch: 24.5s

For 50GB memory: 22% is improved, boot time as the following:
with patch: 43.8s, without patch: 56.8s

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
* Add boot time details in change log.
* Please apply this patch after [PATCH 1/2] mm: meminit: initialise
more memory for inode/dentry hash tables in early boot, because
[PATCH 1/2] is to fix a bug which can be reproduced on Power.

arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 9faa18c..97d41ad 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ config PPC
select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL
+ select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT

config GENERIC_CSUM
def_bool CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
--
2.1.0