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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index c180af880ed5..e79de2bd12cd 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -636,3 +636,21 @@ config MAX_STACK_SIZE_MB changed to a smaller value in which case that is used. A sane initial value is 80 MB. + +# For architectures that support deferred memory initialisation +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT + bool + +config DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT + bool "Defer initialisation of struct pages to kswapd" + default n + depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT + depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG + help + Ordinarily all struct pages are initialised during early boot in a + single thread. On very large machines this can take a considerable + amount of time. If this option is set, large machines will bring up + a subset of memmap at boot and then initialise the rest in parallel + when kswapd starts. This has a potential performance impact on + processes running early in the lifetime of the systemm until kswapd + finishes the initialisation. |