[PATCH v5 6/6] powerpc: Don't flush caches when adding memory

Alastair D'Silva alastair at au1.ibm.com
Mon Nov 4 13:32:58 AEDT 2019


From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair at d-silva.org>

This operation takes a significant amount of time when hotplugging
large amounts of memory (~50 seconds with 890GB of persistent memory).

This was orignally in commit fb5924fddf9e
("powerpc/mm: Flush cache on memory hot(un)plug") to support memtrace,
but the flush on add is not needed as it is flushed on remove.

Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair at d-silva.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index a7b662fc02c8..4a424b514772 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -142,8 +142,6 @@ int __ref arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
 		return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
-	flush_dcache_range_chunked(start, start + size, FLUSH_CHUNK_SIZE);
-
 	return __add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, restrictions);
 }
 
-- 
2.21.0



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