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From: Paul Menzel <pmenzel+linux-mm@molgen.mpg.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to profile 160 ms spent in `add_highpages_with_active_regions()`?
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 11:16:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d2ad2459-61ea-edb1-3b22-da92c039bfae@molgen.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1808221539190.1652@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>

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Dear Thomas,


On 08/22/18 15:41, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, Paul Menzel wrote:
>> Am 21.08.2018 um 11:37 schrieb Paul Menzel:
>>> [Removed non-working Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>]
>>
>> So “free’ing” pfn = 225278 to e_pfn = 818492 in the for loop takes 160 ms.
> 
> That's 593214 pages and each one takes about 270ns. I don't see much
> optimization potential with that.
> 
> 32bit and highmem sucks ...

Interestingly on my ASRock E350M1 with 4 GB, `pfn_valid()` is always true.

Additionally, after removing the for loop, the system still boots and seems
to work fine.

Here is the hunk I removed (with my debug statements).

-               for ( ; pfn < e_pfn; pfn++)
-                       if (pfn_valid(pfn)) {
-                               free_highmem_page(pfn_to_page(pfn));
-                               //printk(KERN_INFO "%s: in for loop pfn_valid(pfn) after fre
e_highmem_page, pfn = %lu\n", __func__, pfn);
-                       } else {
-                               printk(KERN_INFO "%s: pfn = %lu is invalid\n", __func__);
-                       }

Is the code there for certain memory sizes?


Kind regards,

Paul


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  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-04  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-17  8:12 Paul Menzel
2018-08-21  9:37 ` Paul Menzel
2018-08-22 13:25   ` Paul Menzel
2018-08-22 13:41     ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-09-04  9:16       ` Paul Menzel [this message]
2018-09-13 12:04         ` Thomas Gleixner

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