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Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] mm: meminit: initialise more memory for inode/dentry hash tables in early boot

From: Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
Date: 2016-03-04 08:48:51
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On 03/03/2016 08:01 AM, Li Zhang wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -293,13 +293,20 @@ static inline bool update_defer_init(pg_data_t *pgdat,
 				unsigned long pfn, unsigned long zone_end,
 				unsigned long *nr_initialised)
 {
+	unsigned long max_initialise;
+
 	/* Always populate low zones for address-contrained allocations */
 	if (zone_end < pgdat_end_pfn(pgdat))
 		return true;
+	/*
+	* Initialise at least 2G of a node but also take into account that
+	* two large system hashes that can take up 1GB for 0.25TB/node.
+	*/
The indentation is wrong here.
+	max_initialise = max(2UL << (30 - PAGE_SHIFT),
+		(pgdat->node_spanned_pages >> 8));
 
-	/* Initialise at least 2G of the highest zone */
 	(*nr_initialised)++;
-	if (*nr_initialised > (2UL << (30 - PAGE_SHIFT)) &&
+	if ((*nr_initialised > max_initialise) &&
 	    (pfn & (PAGES_PER_SECTION - 1)) == 0) {
 		pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = pfn;
 		return false;
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