Re: [RESEND PATCH v10 6/6] mm: page_alloc: reduce unnecessary binary search in early_pfn_valid()

[Jia He]

Hi Pasha
Thanks for the comments

On 8/17/2018 9:35 AM, Pasha Tatashin Wrote:
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> 
> On 7/6/18 5:01 AM, Jia He wrote:
>> Commit b92df1de5d28 ("mm: page_alloc: skip over regions of invalid pfns
>> where possible") optimized the loop in memmap_init_zone(). But there is
>> still some room for improvement. E.g. in early_pfn_valid(), if pfn and
>> pfn+1 are in the same memblock region, we can record the last returned
>> memblock region index and check whether pfn++ is still in the same
>> region.
>>
>> Currently it only improve the performance on arm/arm64 and will have no
>> impact on other arches.
>>
>> For the performance improvement, after this set, I can see the time
>> overhead of memmap_init() is reduced from 27956us to 13537us in my
>> armv8a server(QDF2400 with 96G memory, pagesize 64k).
> 
> This series would be a lot simpler if patches 4, 5, and 6 were dropped.
> The extra complexity does not make sense to save 0.0001s/T during not.
> 
> Patches 1-3, look OK, but without patches 4-5 __init_memblock should be
> made local static as I suggested earlier.
> 
> So, I think Jia should re-spin this series with only 3 patches. Or,
> Andrew could remove the from linux-next before merge.
> 
I will respin it with #1-#3 patch if no more comments

Cheers,
Jia
> Thank you,
> Pavel
>