From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:17:15 +0000 Subject: Re: free bootmem feedback patch Message-Id: <20040714091715.GM3411@holomorphy.com> List-Id: References: <40F46962.4090604@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <40F46962.4090604@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 05:59:46PM -0500, Joshua Aas wrote: > NUMA machines with a lot of memory/nodes appear to hang when freeing boot > memory, as it can take on the order of 4 minutes. I would like to propose > this patch, which adds progress feedback during this time. On a machine > with only one memory region (a single node), it prints: > Freeing boot memory... done > It prints more dots every x nodes handled based on the total number of > nodes, in such a way that the line never exceeds 80 chars. This way it is > possible to see progress being made. I have tested this on a few machines, > including a 512p/512GB machine, and it works fine. Could I get a look at the memory map for this machine? Also, it may make more sense to speed this up by freeing higher-order pages at a time. -- wli