mm/nobootmem.c: have __free_pages_memory() free in larger chunks.
On large memory machines it can take a few minutes to get through free_all_bootmem(). Currently, when free_all_bootmem() calls __free_pages_memory(), the number of contiguous pages that __free_pages_memory() passes to the buddy allocator is limited to BITS_PER_LONG. BITS_PER_LONG was originally chosen to keep things similar to mm/nobootmem.c. But it is more efficient to limit it to MAX_ORDER. base new change 8TB 202s 172s 30s 16TB 401s 351s 50s That is around 1%-3% improvement on total boot time. This patch was spun off from the boot time rfc Robin and I had been working on. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <robin.m.holt@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@linux.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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