[PATCH 0/4] mm/mm_init: simplify deferred init of struct pages

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Mon Aug 18 2025 - 02:46:41 EST


From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

These patches simplify deferred initialization of the memory map.

Beside nice negative diffstat I measured 3ms reduction in the
initialization of deferred pages on single node system with 64GiB of RAM.

I don't have access to large memory machines, so I'd really appreciate
testing of these patches on them to make sure there's no regression there.

The patches are also available at git:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/linux.git/log/?h=deferred-memmap-init/v1

Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) (4):
mm/mm_init: use deferred_init_memmap_chunk() in deferred_grow_zone()
mm/mm_init: deferred_init_memmap: use a job per zone
mm/mm_init: drop deferred_init_maxorder()
memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from()

.clang-format | 1 -
include/linux/memblock.h | 22 -----
mm/memblock.c | 64 -------------
mm/mm_init.c | 195 +++++++++++++--------------------------
4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 220 deletions(-)


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