Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] padata: parallelize deferred page init

2020-05-21 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 02:26:38PM -0400, Daniel Jordan wrote: > Please review and test, and thanks to Alex, Andrew, Josh, and Pavel for > their feedback in the last version. I re-tested v2: Tested-by: Josh Triplett [0.231435] node 1 initialised, 24189223 pages in 32ms [0.236718] node

[PATCH v2 0/7] padata: parallelize deferred page init

2020-05-20 Thread Daniel Jordan
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