Keep track of which page is the first available to the boot allocator to avoid scanning the hole "0 ... first_pg" on every allocation, on platforms that do not have physical memory starting at address 0x00. This reduces the Xen boot time by roughly 150 seconds on a small Altix with 6GB of RAM. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen diff -r 66609699c9d0 xen/common/page_alloc.c --- a/xen/common/page_alloc.c Fri Dec 08 14:29:42 2006 +0100 +++ b/xen/common/page_alloc.c Mon Dec 11 15:54:10 2006 +0100 @@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ static void map_alloc(unsigned long firs } +static unsigned long first_pg = -1UL; + static void map_free(unsigned long first_page, unsigned long nr_pages) { unsigned long start_off, end_off, curr_idx, end_idx; @@ -152,6 +154,13 @@ static void map_free(unsigned long first start_off = first_page & (PAGES_PER_MAPWORD-1); end_idx = (first_page + nr_pages) / PAGES_PER_MAPWORD; end_off = (first_page + nr_pages) & (PAGES_PER_MAPWORD-1); + + /* + * Set first_pg to the first entry initialized so the boot + * allocator can avoid scanning the hole from 0 for no reason + */ + if (first_page < first_pg) + first_pg = first_page; if ( curr_idx == end_idx ) { @@ -258,7 +267,7 @@ unsigned long alloc_boot_pages(unsigned { unsigned long pg, i = 0; - for ( pg = 0; (pg + nr_pfns) < max_page; pg += pfn_align ) + for ( pg = first_pg; (pg + nr_pfns) < max_page; pg += pfn_align ) { i = alloc_boot_pages_at(nr_pfns, pg); if (i != 0) @@ -301,7 +310,7 @@ void end_boot_allocator(void) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&heap[i][j][k]); /* Pages that are free now go to the domain sub-allocator. */ - for ( i = 0; i < max_page; i++ ) + for ( i = first_pg; i < max_page; i++ ) { curr_free = next_free; next_free = !allocated_in_map(i+1); @@ -482,7 +491,7 @@ void scrub_heap_pages(void) printk("Scrubbing Free RAM: "); - for ( pfn = 0; pfn < max_page; pfn++ ) + for ( pfn = first_pg; pfn < max_page; pfn++ ) { /* Every 100MB, print a progress dot. */ if ( (pfn % ((100*1024*1024)/PAGE_SIZE)) == 0 )