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authorRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>2010-09-29 14:00:56 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-10-22 10:16:44 -0700
commit63d027a63888e993545d10fdfe4107d543f01bca (patch)
tree223e4f3905c1519625e3973d8f25482c1f86b94f /drivers/base
parent98383031ed77c6eb49ab612166fef9c0efe1604a (diff)
driver core: Convert link_mem_sections to use find_memory_block_hinted.
Modify link_mem_sections() to pass in the previous mem_block as a hint to locating the next mem_block. Since they are typically added in order this results in a massive saving in time during boot of a very large system. For example, on a 16TB x86_64 machine, it reduced the total time spent linking all node's memory sections from 1 hour, 27 minutes to 46 seconds. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> To: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/node.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/node.c b/drivers/base/node.c
index 2872e86837b..ee53558b452 100644
--- a/drivers/base/node.c
+++ b/drivers/base/node.c
@@ -409,25 +409,27 @@ static int link_mem_sections(int nid)
unsigned long start_pfn = NODE_DATA(nid)->node_start_pfn;
unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn + NODE_DATA(nid)->node_spanned_pages;
unsigned long pfn;
+ struct memory_block *mem_blk = NULL;
int err = 0;
for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
unsigned long section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(pfn);
struct mem_section *mem_sect;
- struct memory_block *mem_blk;
int ret;
if (!present_section_nr(section_nr))
continue;
mem_sect = __nr_to_section(section_nr);
- mem_blk = find_memory_block(mem_sect);
+ mem_blk = find_memory_block_hinted(mem_sect, mem_blk);
ret = register_mem_sect_under_node(mem_blk, nid);
if (!err)
err = ret;
/* discard ref obtained in find_memory_block() */
- kobject_put(&mem_blk->sysdev.kobj);
}
+
+ if (mem_blk)
+ kobject_put(&mem_blk->sysdev.kobj);
return err;
}