Patch series "padata: parallelize deferred page init", v3.
Deferred struct page init is a bottleneck in kernel boot--the biggest for
us and probably others. Optimizing it maximizes availability for
large-memory systems and allows spinning up short-lived VMs as needed
without having to leave them running. It also benefits bare metal
machines hosting VMs that are sensitive to downtime. In projects such as
VMM Fast Restart[1], where guest state is preserved across kexec reboot,
it helps prevent application and network timeouts in the guests.
So, multithread deferred init to take full advantage of system memory
bandwidth.
Extend padata, a framework that handles many parallel singlethreaded jobs,
to handle multithreaded jobs as well by adding support for splitting up
the work evenly, specifying a minimum amount of work that's appropriate
for one helper thread to do, load balancing between helpers, and
coordinating them. More documentation in patches 4 and 8.
This series is the first step in a project to address other memory
proportional bottlenecks in the kernel such as pmem struct page init, vfio
page pinning, hugetlb fallocate, and munmap. Deferred page init doesn't
require concurrency limits, resource control, or priority adjustments like
these other users will because it happens during boot when the system is
otherwise idle and waiting for page init to finish.
This has been run on a variety of x86 systems and speeds up kernel boot by
4% to 49%, saving up to 1.6 out of 4 seconds. Patch 6 has more numbers.
This patch (of 8):
padata_driver_exit() is unnecessary because padata isn't built as a module
and doesn't exit.
padata's init routine will soon allocate memory, so getting rid of the
exit function now avoids pointless code to free it.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Cc: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527173608.2885243-1-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527173608.2885243-2-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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