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Commit 309d0b39 authored by Robin Holt's avatar Robin Holt Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/nobootmem.c: have __free_pages_memory() free in larger chunks.



On large memory machines it can take a few minutes to get through
free_all_bootmem().

Currently, when free_all_bootmem() calls __free_pages_memory(), the number
of contiguous pages that __free_pages_memory() passes to the buddy
allocator is limited to BITS_PER_LONG.  BITS_PER_LONG was originally
chosen to keep things similar to mm/nobootmem.c.  But it is more efficient
to limit it to MAX_ORDER.

       base   new  change
8TB    202s  172s   30s
16TB   401s  351s   50s

That is around 1%-3% improvement on total boot time.

This patch was spun off from the boot time rfc Robin and I had been
working on.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRobin Holt <robin.m.holt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@linux.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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