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

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Thu Mar 03 2016 - 03:34:42 EST


On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 03:01:41PM +0800, Li Zhang wrote:
> From: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Parallel initialisation has been enabled for X86,
> boot time is improved greatly.
> On Power8, for small memory, it is improved greatly.
> Here is the result from my test on Power8 platform:
>
> For 4GB memory: 57% is improved
> For 50GB memory: 22% is improve
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zhang <zhlcindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs