Re: [PATCH] arm64: init: override deferred_page_init_max_threads

[Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>]

(added powerpc folks)

On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 07:15:59PM -0400, Eric Chanudet wrote:
> This was the behavior prior to making the function arch-specific with
> commit ecd096506922 ("mm: make deferred init's max threads
> arch-specific")
> 
> Architectures can override the generic implementation that uses only one
> CPU. Setting DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT and testing on a few arm64
> platforms shows faster deferred_init_memmap completions:
> 
> |         | x13s        | SA8775p-ride | Ampere R137-P31 | Ampere HR330 |
> |         | Metal, 32GB | VM, 36GB     | VM, 58GB        | Metal, 128GB |
> |         | 8cpus       | 8cpus        | 8cpus           | 32cpus       |
> |---------|-------------|--------------|-----------------|--------------|
> | threads |  ms     (%) | ms       (%) |  ms         (%) |  ms      (%) |
> |---------|-------------|--------------|-----------------|--------------|
> | 1       | 108    (0%) | 72      (0%) | 224        (0%) | 324     (0%) |
> | cpus    |  24  (-77%) | 36    (-50%) |  40      (-82%) |  56   (-82%) |
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Chanudet <echanude@redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index 9b5ab6818f7f..71f5188fe63d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -158,6 +158,13 @@ static void __init zone_sizes_init(void)
>  	free_area_init(max_zone_pfns);
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
> +int __init deferred_page_init_max_threads(const struct cpumask *node_cpumask)
> +{
> +	return max_t(int, cpumask_weight(node_cpumask), 1);
> +}
> +#endif
> +

Maybe we should make this default and let architectures that want a single
thread override deferred_page_init_max_threads() to return 1?

>  int pfn_is_map_memory(unsigned long pfn)
>  {
>  	phys_addr_t addr = PFN_PHYS(pfn);
> -- 
> 2.44.0
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.