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As best as I can tell the meminit_pfn_in_nid call is completely redundant. The deferred memory initialization is already making use of for_each_free_mem_range which in turn will call into __next_mem_range which will only return a memory range if it matches the node ID provided assuming it is not NUMA_NO_NODE. I am operating on the assumption that there are no zones or pgdata_t structures that have a NUMA node of NUMA_NO_NODE associated with them. If that is the case then __next_mem_range will never return a memory range that doesn't match the zone's node ID and as such the check is redundant. So one piece I would like to verify on this is if this works for ia64. Technically it was using a different approach to get the node ID, but it seems to have the node ID also encoded into the memblock. So I am assuming this is okay, but would like to get confirmation on that. On my x86_64 test system with 384GB of memory per node I saw a reduction in initialization time from 2.80s to 1.85s as a result of this patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190405221219.12227.93957.stgit@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <yi.z.zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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