[v3 0/9] parallelized "struct page" zeroing

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Sat May 13 03:37:42 AEST 2017


From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin at oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 13:24:52 -0400

> Right now it is larger, but what I suggested is to add a new optimized
> routine just for this case, which would do STBI for 64-bytes but
> without membar (do membar at the end of memmap_init_zone() and
> deferred_init_memmap()
> 
> #define struct_page_clear(page)                                 \
>         __asm__ __volatile__(                                   \
>         "stxa   %%g0, [%0]%2\n"                                 \
>         "stxa   %%xg0, [%0 + %1]%2\n"                           \
>         : /* No output */                                       \
>         : "r" (page), "r" (0x20), "i"(ASI_BLK_INIT_QUAD_LDD_P))
> 
> And insert it into __init_single_page() instead of memset()
> 
> The final result is 4.01s/T which is even faster compared to current
> 4.97s/T

Ok, indeed, that would work.


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