From 7f2bd006334291178bd2bce3e506d4c7a34a0643 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zhang Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:20:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: enable page parallel initialisation Parallel initialisation has been enabled for X86, boot time is improved greatly. On Power8, it is improved greatly for small memory. Here is the result from my test on Power8 platform: For 4GB of memory, boot time is improved by 59%, from 24.5s to 10s. For 50GB memory, boot time is improved by 22%, from 56.8s to 43.8s. Signed-off-by: Li Zhang Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index 832cc461d0af..a030e5ecb10b 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ config PPC select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL + select ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT config GENERIC_CSUM def_bool CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN -- 2.30.2