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Commit f69c2e4d authored by Saurabh Sengar's avatar Saurabh Sengar Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm/vmstat: defer the refresh_zone_stat_thresholds after all CPUs bringup

refresh_zone_stat_thresholds function has two loops which is expensive for
higher number of CPUs and NUMA nodes.

Below is the rough estimation of total iterations done by these loops
based on number of NUMA and CPUs.

Total number of iterations: nCPU * 2 * Numa * mCPU
Where:
 nCPU = total number of CPUs
 Numa = total number of NUMA nodes
 mCPU = mean value of total CPUs (e.g., 512 for 1024 total CPUs)

For the system under test with 16 NUMA nodes and 1024 CPUs, this results
in a substantial increase in the number of loop iterations during boot-up
when NUMA is enabled:

No NUMA = 1024*2*1*512  =   1,048,576 : Here refresh_zone_stat_thresholds
takes around 224 ms total for all the CPUs in the system under test.
16 NUMA = 1024*2*16*512 =  16,777,216 : Here refresh_zone_stat_thresholds
takes around 4.5 seconds total for all the CPUs in the system under test.

Calling this for each CPU is expensive when there are large number of CPUs
along with multiple NUMAs.  Fix this by deferring
refresh_zone_stat_thresholds to be called later at once when all the
secondary CPUs are up.  Also, register the DYN hooks to keep the existing
hotplug functionality intact.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1723443220-20623-1-git-send-email-ssengar@linux.microsoft.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarSaurabh Sengar <ssengar@linux.microsoft.com>
Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSrivatsa S. Bhat (Microsoft) <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>
Cc: Saurabh Singh Sengar <ssengar@microsoft.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1f2d03cc
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