linux/arch/powerpc
Anton Blanchard 7545ba6f82 powerpc/mm: Bump SECTION_SIZE_BITS from 16MB to 256MB
The current setting for SECTION_SIZE_BITS is quite small compared to
everyone else:

arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h:#define SECTION_SIZE_BITS  24

arch/sparc/include/asm/sparsemem.h:#define SECTION_SIZE_BITS    30
arch/ia64/include/asm/sparsemem.h:#define SECTION_SIZE_BITS     (30)
arch/s390/include/asm/sparsemem.h:#define SECTION_SIZE_BITS     28
arch/x86/include/asm/sparsemem.h:# define SECTION_SIZE_BITS     27

And it has proven to be an issue during boot on very large machines.
If hotplug memory is enabled, drivers/base/memory.c does this:

       for (i = 0; i < NR_MEM_SECTIONS; i++) {
                if (!present_section_nr(i))
                        continue;
                err = add_memory_block(0, __nr_to_section(i), MEM_ONLINE,
                                        0, BOOT);
                if (!ret)
                        ret = err;
        }

Which creates a sysfs directory for every 16MB of memory. As a result
I'm seeing up to 30 minutes spent here during boot:

c000000000248ee0 .__sysfs_add_one+0x28/0x128
c0000000002492a8 .sysfs_add_one+0x38/0x188
c000000000249c88 .create_dir+0x70/0x138
c000000000249d98 .sysfs_create_dir+0x48/0x78
c00000000032bad8 .kobject_add_internal+0x140/0x308
c00000000032beb4 .kobject_init_and_add+0x4c/0x68
c00000000046c2c0 .sysdev_register+0xa0/0x220
c00000000047b1dc .add_memory_block+0x124/0x1e8
c0000000008d1f28 .memory_dev_init+0xf4/0x168
c0000000008d1b64 .driver_init+0x50/0x64
c000000000890378 .do_basic_setup+0x40/0xd4

I assume there are some O(n^2) issues in sysfs as we add all the memory
nodes. Bumping SECTION_SIZE_BITS to 256 MB drops the time to about 10
seconds and results in a much smaller /sys.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-04-07 18:00:49 +10:00
..
boot powerpc: Add a new zImage for maple using a different link address 2010-04-07 14:12:36 +10:00
configs powerpc/52xx: update defconfigs 2010-03-10 14:39:50 -07:00
include/asm powerpc/mm: Bump SECTION_SIZE_BITS from 16MB to 256MB 2010-04-07 18:00:49 +10:00
kernel powerpc/pseries: Call ibm,os-term if the ibm,extended-os-term is present 2010-04-07 18:00:48 +10:00
kvm include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
lib powerpc: Fix handling of strncmp with zero len 2010-04-07 18:00:39 +10:00
math-emu powerpc/math-emu: Fix efp dependence 2009-03-11 06:00:08 -05:00
mm powerpc: Disable interrupts for data breakpoint exceptions 2010-04-07 14:44:38 +10:00
oprofile include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
platforms powerpc/pseries/dlpar: Use kasprintf 2010-04-07 18:00:42 +10:00
sysdev include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
xmon powerpc: Mark some variables in the page fault path __read_mostly 2010-02-03 17:39:48 +11:00
Kconfig powerpc: Remove IOMMU_VMERGE config option 2010-03-19 16:38:16 +11:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2009-12-16 13:26:53 -08:00
Makefile powerpc: Check for unsupported relocs when using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE 2009-09-24 15:31:40 +10:00
relocs_check.pl powerpc: Check for unsupported relocs when using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE 2009-09-24 15:31:40 +10:00